Mountain Gate, California
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Redding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96003. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the City of Shasta Lake quadrangle. 815 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1890 to 1998The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresMountain Gate fell from 943 to 815 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 943 | |
| 2020 | 815 | -128 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 30 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1901 USGS Redding quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Redding quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Redding quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Project City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS City of Shasta Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
446 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 446 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Gate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,672 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 67 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 149 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 98 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 67 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Natural | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 19 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | ASHBY |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | Northern California District | FLANAGAN |
| 8 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | PLAINS |
| 8 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | TRAIL #4 |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BEAR |
| 7 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern California District | VISTA |
| 5 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | FAWNDALE #2 |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BRIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 65 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Gate: 19 past producers, 19 occurrences, 12 producers, 10 unknowns. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Diamond Group | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Occurrence | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Thompson | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Unnamed Property | Chromium | Unknown | ||
| Redding Cement Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Redding Cement Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Trask | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Culeyeran Cement Div of Redding | Limestone, General | Prospect | Sedimentary | |
| Culeyeran Cement Div of Redding | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Prospect | ||
| Falkenbury Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McColl | 0.8 miles | 30 | |
| Tunnel Inn | 0.8 miles | 30 | |
| Bayha (historical) | 1.0 miles | 30 | |
| Portal Inn | 1.5 miles | 30 | |
| Project City (historical) | 2.7 miles | 30 | |
| Lillienthal (historical) | 3.0 miles | 30 | |
| Shasta Lake | 3.2 miles | 30 | |
| Central Valley (historical) | 3.2 miles | 30 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Mountain Gate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6024959 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 263897. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.








