Mountain House is the first new town chartered by the State of California in the past 40 years. The total area is 4,784 acres and is located in southwestern San Joaquin County at the Altamont Pass. In 1997, development of the communitywide GIS began for what is believed to be one of the first GIS systems for a "greenfields town." Condor provides engineering and surveying services for this project, in turn producing data that is utilized in a GIS. GIS is currently being used for general planning, watershed analysis, transportation cost estimates, and marketing. In the future, the Mountain House Town Community Services District will utilize the extensive GIS database for monitoring and maintenance of activities associated with public services.