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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.

Round Mountain within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Round Mountain, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Round Mountain, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Round 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.

YearPeople Change
2010155
2020160+5 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

164 since 1992

Regional 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural22
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitBAKUS
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresShasta-Trinity UnitMILL
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitNEWMAN
4 September 2007Natural1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitH13
4 September 2007Natural1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitFENDERS FERRY RD MONTGOM
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSNUFFY
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING # 73
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING #74

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carroll Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highgrade Lead ProspectLead, ZincProducer
St John ProspectZinc, CopperProspect
St. JohnCopper, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
CartwrightLeadProspect
Highgrade Lead ProspectLead, ZincPast Producer

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
Montgomery Creek3.4 miles31
Hillcrest5.1 miles31
Osborne7.0 miles26
Fern7.3 miles29
Furnaceville (historical)7.4 miles26
Wengler8.5 miles29
Ingot8.6 miles26
Oak Run8.7 miles26

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3303238The 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.