Mountain House, San Joaquin County, California
| Mountain House | |
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| Census-designated place | |
 Mountain House
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| Coordinates: 37°46′26″N 121°32′39″W / 37.77389°N 121.54417°WCoordinates: 37°46′26″N 121°32′39″W / 37.77389°N 121.54417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Joaquin |
| Government | |
| • State senator | Cathleen Galgiani (D) |
| • Assemblymember | Susan Eggman (D) |
| • U. S. rep. | Jerry McNerney (D) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.192 sq mi (8.268 km2) |
| • Land | 3.192 sq mi (8.268 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) 0% |
| Elevation | 82 ft (25 m) |
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |
| • Total | 9,675 |
| • Density | 3,000/sq mi (1,200/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific Time Zone (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| ZIP codes | 95391 |
| Area code | 209 |
| FIPS code | 06-49582 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1888888, 2628761 |
Mountain House is a census-designated place and planned community in San Joaquin County, California. An exurb of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mountain House is 5 miles (8 km) from the City of Tracy near Interstate 205. The community of Mountain House in San Joaquin County lies two miles (3 km) northeast of and borrows the name of Alameda County's historical Mountain House, a halfway stop for forty-niners passing over the Altamont Pass (historic Livermore Pass) on their way to the gold country of the Sierra Nevada foothills located at the base of the Diablo Range on the western edge of California's Central Valley.
In November 2008, the community appeared in nationwide news reports as having the highest percentage of negative equity in the United States – the most homes "under water" (worth less than their mortgage). In 2012, despite a partially outdated land plan and a lack of retail and industrial centers, Mountain House was experiencing economic recovery. In 2010 CDP's population was 9,675. In 2015, the population was around 14,000.
The Cholbon triblet of the Northern Valley Yokuts were the original inhabitants of the Mountain House area. Their territory ran along Old River a distributary of the San Joaquin River.
In 1849 Thomas Goodall erected a blue denim cloth tent to serve as a midway stopover for gold miners headed from San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) foothills via Altamont Pass. Goodall eventually built an adobe house at the eastern edge of the Diablo Range hills, calling it The Mountain House. Simon Zimmerman later acquired the stop and it became known as Zimmerman's Mountain House, and became a well-known way station stop on the way to . The last remaining settlement buildings were leveled in 1940. In November 1994, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors officially launched the new community of Mountain House two miles to the northeast along Mountain House Creek.
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