California's newest city: what you need to know
FILE ART - Mountain House, Calif. Photo: city website
MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Calif. - California's population grew by nearly 110,000 people last year, and added its newest city in San Joaquin County.
Mountain House incorporated in July 2024, according to a report by the state Department of Finance, and now has 28,795 residents, becoming California's 483rd city.
Mountain House, about 35 miles from Stockton, touts itself as a family-oriented community, whose name originiates from the Gold Rush Era.
When miners traveled from San Francisco to the Sierra foothills, they often rested midway at a house called "Mountain House" at the bottom of a range of hills.
The first Mountain House structure was a blue tent and was built in 1849 by Thomas Goodall.
Along with Native Americans, Goodall built an adobe house on the site where Mountain House became a rest stop for miners, stockmen, rancheros, and immigrants, the city website states.
The Department of Finance had some other fun facts about California cities as well.
- The smallest county in California is Alpine County, with just over 1,170 residents.
- The largest county is Los Angeles County, with 9.9 million residents.
- Lassen County had the highest population growth rate at 2.88%.
- Madera had the highest housing growth of all the counties at 2.65%.
These population estimates are produced annually by the California Department of Finance for use by local areas to calculate their annual appropriations limit.
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