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History · Mountain Gate

22% of Mountain Gate’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1944 on.

0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Mountain Gate’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Mountain Gate are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Mountain Gate, and 6 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mountain Gate’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Stillwater
1870–1900
Bayha
1900–1907
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BayhaMcCollMountain Gate Mobile Home ParkRedding Lakeside Mobile EstatesTunnel InnWonderland Mobile Home Park

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Mountain Gate, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mountain Gate yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Mountain Gate is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California, United States. Mountain Gate sits at an elevation of 915 feet (279 m). Its population is 815 as of the 2020 census, down from 943 from the 2010 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 943 to 815 (-14%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Mountain Gate, 1870 to 1944

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Stillwater post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1900Post officeThe Stillwater post office closes
  5. 1900Post officeThe Bayha post office opens
  6. 1907Post officeThe Bayha post office closes
  7. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Mountain Gate on the map, 1944 to 1998

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mountain Gate. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Mountain Gate on the 1944 USGS mapMountain Gate on the 1957 USGS mapMountain Gate on the 1969 USGS mapMountain Gate on the 1998 USGS map1944Redding sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mountain Gate.

Famous people

Famous people close to Mountain Gate

Nobody well known was born in Mountain Gate itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Megan RapinoeAmerican soccer player · b. 1985
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Jim HanksAmerican actor · b. 1961
Brian Sandoval29th Governor of Nevada and former United State… · b. 1963
Francesca EastwoodAmerican actress · b. 1993
Scott LearyAmerican swimmer · b. 1881
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Kevin SharpAmerican country music singer, author, and moti… · b. 1970

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.