Round Mountain, California
31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96084. It stands on Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Montgomery Creek quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,083 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1998The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresRound Mountain grew from 155 to 160 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 | 155 | |
| 2020 | 160 | +5 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 31 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.
- 1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1935 USGS Burney quadrangle1:125000
- 1935 USGS Burney quadrangle1:96000
- 1939 USGS Burney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Montgomery Creek quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Burney quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Montgomery Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Montgomery Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
164 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Round Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67,491 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | BAKUS |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | MILL |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | NEWMAN |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | H13 |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | FENDERS FERRY RD MONTGOM |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | SNUFFY |
| 29 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | LIGHTNING # 73 |
| 29 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | LIGHTNING #74 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Round Mountain: 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Highgrade Lead Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Producer | ||
| St John Prospect | Zinc, Copper | Prospect | ||
| St. John | Copper, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Cartwright | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Highgrade Lead Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Past 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery Creek | 3.4 miles | 31 | |
| Hillcrest | 5.1 miles | 31 | |
| Osborne | 7.0 miles | 26 | |
| Fern | 7.3 miles | 29 | |
| Furnaceville (historical) | 7.4 miles | 26 | |
| Wengler | 8.5 miles | 29 | |
| Ingot | 8.6 miles | 26 | |
| Oak Run | 8.7 miles | 26 |
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 Round Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3303238 | 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 1659552. 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.














