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El Dorado County (/ ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ / ⓘ; El Dorado, Spanish for "The Golden [one]"), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. [5] The county seat is Placerville. [6]
Aug 19, 2024 · El Dorado County began its entrepreneurial spirit with the California Gold Rush and is still open for business today! With unmatched rural beauty, endless recreational opportunities, world class public schools, the County provides an unparalleled quality of life.
If any spot in California—even the United States—can boast of having a “rich” history, El Dorado County is it. After all, this region, located between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, is where the Gold Rush kicked off in the 1840s.
El Dorado Hills ( El Dorado, Spanish for "The Golden") is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California. Located in the Greater Sacramento region of Northern California, it had a population of 50,547 at the 2020 census, up from 42,108 at the 2010 census.
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El Dorado County is one of about 3,141 counties and county equivalents in the United States and is one of 58 counties in California. It has 1,710.8 square miles in land area and a population density of 102.9 per square mile. In the last three decades of the 1900s its population grew by 256.6%.
Placerville ( / ˈplæsərvɪl /, PLASS-ər-vil; placer, Spanish for "sand deposit" and ville, French for "town") is a city in and the county seat of El Dorado County, California, United States. The population was 10,747 as of the 2020 census, up from 10,389 as of the 2010 census.
Learn more about the inner workings of the El Dorado County Government, our current Board of Supervisors, and the most recent election information. You can also contact the County or find information about any of our departments to find the service you need, below.
El Dorado County is centrally located between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. El Dorado can be reached via two major highways: Highway 50 and Highway 49. Highway 50 was the first official U.S. highway in California, and it separates the county from the west in El Dorado Hills to the east in South Lake Tahoe.
1 Placer County - El Dorado County's northern neighbor stretches from the suburbs of Sacramento to Lake Tahoe and the Nevada border. Named after the Spanish word meaning "sand or gravel deposits containing gold", the county was a hotbed of activity during the Gold Rush.
El Dorado County, California; United States. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.