Applegate, Placer County
Propane delivery in Applegate, CA
American River Gas delivers propane in Applegate, about 11 miles and 15 minutes up I-80 from our Ophir Road yard in Newcastle. Applegate is almost entirely beyond the natural gas main, only 2.5% of households in the 95703 ZIP area use utility gas, so propane is the main fuel for heat and hot water here.
Updated · American River Gas office, Newcastle
By the numbers
Propane in Applegate
Applegate has no Census place of its own; these figures cover the 95703 ZIP area, where only 2.5% of households use utility gas.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25040 (House Heating Fuel). Drive distance: OSRM route from 10290 Ophir Rd.
A 2,000-foot community on I-80
Applegate sits at about 2,000 feet, split by Interstate 80 between Auburn and Colfax. It dates to 1849, when Lisbon Applegate from Missouri bought land near Clipper Gap for a fruit ranch. The settlement was called Bear River House, then Lisbon when its post office opened in 1855, and took the Applegate name in the 1870s. It was a Central Pacific station stop.
Homes here are spread along Applegate Road and the side roads off the freeway, and the Placer Hills Fire Protection District covers the community.
Nearly all propane
The Census counts 873 households in the 95703 ZIP area. 408 of them, about 47%, heat with propane, and only 22 use utility gas. The rest use other heating fuels. If you live in Applegate and cook or heat with gas, it is almost certainly propane from a tank on your property.
Winter nights and Keep Full
Applegate winters are cool and wet, with average January lows around 38 degrees, so furnaces run for months. With Keep Full, we time each delivery from outdoor temperatures and your history and fill the tank to about 86% in winter.
If you would rather call it in, you can call when the gauge reads about 30% and we usually deliver within a week on the route day.
Our Budget Plan can go with Keep Full: the year's propane is spread into equal monthly payments, billed on the 10th, on a May to April year, so the heavy winter months do not all land at once.
- Keep the drive clear to truck width and height.
- Leave the gate unlocked or give us the gate code.
- Our hose reaches 120 feet from the truck.
Tanks, lines and appliance work
We set tanks by crane, leased or customer-owned, and install underground gas lines to houses, shops and outbuildings. Our technicians install regulators, do leak checks and pressure tests, and handle appliance conversions. After a tank runs empty, a leak test is required before we relight anything.
Because gas meters are so rare here, many Applegate homes were built around propane from the start: furnace, water heater, range and often a fireplace insert. Tell us every appliance on the system when you open an account so we can size the tank and plan deliveries.
Fire district and power shutoffs
Applegate is covered by the Placer Hills Fire Protection District, whose Station 85 is on Applegate Road. Keep grass and brush trimmed back around the tank through fire season.
Applegate was on PG&E's Placer County list for the October 23, 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff. Keep Full automatic delivery keeps the tank topped up ahead of an outage, so a propane fireplace or wall heater that runs without power still has fuel.
Refills and moving to Applegate
Drive fifteen minutes down I-80 to our yard at 10290 Ophir Road for barbecue and RV cylinder refills, weekdays 8:00 to 4:30, closed noon to 1:00.
Buying in Applegate? Ask whether the tank is leased or owned, then call us; we leak check the system before the first fill. If you smell gas, leave the building first, then call 911 and us from outside. After hours, our answering service reaches staff.
Services
Our services in Applegate
Questions
Applegate propane questions
Do you deliver propane in Applegate, CA?
Yes. Applegate is about 15 minutes up I-80 from our Ophir Road yard. Call (530) 888-7438 and the office will tell you your delivery day.
Is there natural gas in Applegate?
Very little. Census figures show only 22 of 873 households in the 95703 ZIP area use utility gas. Most gas appliances here run on propane.
Do you deliver near Clipper Gap?
Yes. We deliver to Clipper Gap, between Applegate and Auburn; call the office and it will tell you your delivery day.
How far is Applegate from your yard?
About 11 miles, roughly 15 minutes down I-80 to Ophir Road in Newcastle.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, ZCTA 95703 (opens in a new tab) · Applegate, California (Wikipedia) (opens in a new tab) · Placer Hills Fire Protection District (opens in a new tab) · YubaNet: PG&E PSPS of October 23, 2019, Placer County communities (opens in a new tab)
Newcastle yard · since 1966
Propane in Applegate
Call the office and talk to a real person. Or leave your details and we call you back.
Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:30 PM (closed noon-1:00 PM)
After hours, weekends and holidays, our answering service reaches a staff member.
