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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.

Mountain Gate within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Mountain Gate, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Mountain Gate, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain 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.

YearPeople Change
2010943
2020815-128 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 30 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

446 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined149
Equipment and vehicle use98
Arson/incendiarism67
Debris and open burning44
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony19
Smoking18
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitASHBY
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresNorthern California DistrictFLANAGAN
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitPLAINS
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitTRAIL #4
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBEAR
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictVISTA
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitFAWNDALE #2
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black Diamond GroupCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
OccurrenceSilicaOccurrence
ThompsonCopper, GoldOccurrenceChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Unnamed PropertyChromiumUnknown
Redding Cement PlantCalciumProducer
Redding Cement PlantCalciumProducer
TraskCalciumPast Producer
Culeyeran Cement Div of ReddingLimestone, GeneralProspectSedimentary
Culeyeran Cement Div of ReddingStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Falkenbury Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Shasta County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
McColl0.8 miles30
Tunnel Inn0.8 miles30
Bayha (historical)1.0 miles30
Portal Inn1.5 miles30
Project City (historical)2.7 miles30
Lillienthal (historical)3.0 miles30
Shasta Lake3.2 miles30
Central Valley (historical)3.2 miles30

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 GateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6024959The 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.