Mt. Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company
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13502 Roland Dr.
Montague, CA 96064
 

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Mt. Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company (MSVVFC) serves an area of Siskiyou County that includes and surrounds Mt. Shasta Vista subdivision. MSVVFC is not a part of the subdivision or the association that serves its residents and there is no legal connection between the two organizations except that the property owners association rents for a small fee the Juniper Flats fire house on Juniper Drive for its monthly board of directors meetings. The area that MSVVFC serves is designated on maps as Juniper Flat and is approximately six times the area of the subdivision.

Estimated response times are:
CalFire coming from Weed and/or Yreka a minimum of 20-25 minutes.
United States Forest Service in the summer a minimum of 20-25 minutes.
Southern end of the subdivision takes longer. 
MSVVFC to the south end of subdivision at least 20 minutes. 
MSVVFC and Mayten are initial responders for a fire and Usually first on the scene.

The Juniper Flat area encompasses 23,674 acres. It extends approximately 8.5 miles north of highway 97, and it is 6 miles wide in the southern half and three miles wide in the northern half. Of this area, 19,916 acres are in private ownership, 2,663 acres are owned/managed by the U.S. Forest Service and 1,095 acres are owned/managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Recreational attractions in our area include Pluto's Cave, which receives around 2500 to 3000 visitors per yea and provides winter hibernating habitat for Townsend's Big Ear bats, and summer habitat for Mexican free tail bats. Pluto's Cave is located on county road A12 near Bonanza Drive.

The Living Memorial Sculpture Garden on Highway 97 is National Forest land and administered under a special use permit to the Weed Kiwanis Club and receives thousands of visitors a year. For more information: http://www.weedlmsg.org/

USDA records show there are at least 16 farms/ranches with parcels inside the FSC district, having a total of 3,334 acres. Commercial farm acreage held within the district boundary ranges from <1 acre to 604 acres. Please click here to see a map showing location of farmland.

Please click here to see a MSVVFC service area map. The area is designated by the county as a Zone of Increased Benefit because each property owner in the area pays a small fee for the service. The fee is included in the annual property tax billing.

Nearly half of the structures in the area are within the Mt. Shasta Vista subdivision, where properties are zoned rural residential and are approximately 2.5 acres in size.
For information about zoning please click here:
Siskiyou County Planning Department, Zoning

Please click on the links below to see maps.

Land owned by federal agencies.

Properties of which some portion is within 1.5 miles of federally owned land.