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Mountain House, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Tracy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95391. It stands on Mountain House Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clifton Court Forebay quadrangle. 24,499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Mountain House within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1914 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 75 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 House, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Mountain House, surveyed 1914

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain House grew from 9,675 to 24,499 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
20109,675
202024,499+14,824 (+153%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

524 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 524 fires within 5 miles of Mountain House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,055 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined312
Equipment and vehicle use154
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitALTAMONT PASS RD /W GRANT
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitI 580 / MOUNTAIN HOUSE P
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitMAGNET
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSanta Clara UnitGRANT
5 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin 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
Tracy6.9 miles22
Wainwright Village (historical)7.2 miles22
Carbona9.2 miles22
Banta9.3 miles22
Trull10.9 miles20
Holt12.1 miles19
Mossdale12.4 miles22
Lathrop14.4 miles22

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 HouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473861The 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 1888888. 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.