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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. [6] The county seat is Placerville. [7]
El Dorado County was one of the original counties established when California became a state. Although Coloma, the initial county seat, promised to build several new buildings to serve the county government, an observer noted in 1856 "the present buildings are not suitable in which to transact the business of the Empire county" [3] and the county seat was moved to Placerville in 1857.
Placerville (/ ˈ p l æ s ər v ɪ l /, PLASS-ər-vil; placer, Spanish for "sand deposit", representing the placer mining that was predominant in the town's development, 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 ...
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The El Dorado County Animal Services Shelter, 6435 Capitol Ave. in Diamond Springs will be open to house animals displaced by the evacuation order. If no one answers the door, please call 530-621 ...
At one time it was the town jail, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company office (1927-1961), and has had other associated uses and owners. When the building was donated to the El Dorado County Historical Society in 1981 by Fay Ripley Cannon, it became a museum upon the contingency that it be preserved for public benefit as a historical landmark ...
The Sheriff’s Office said an evacuation shelter was set up at the El Dorado Library’s Placerville branch, 345 Fair Lane and an overnight shelter was set up at Union Mine High School, 6530 Koki ...
He also died in office. Barbara Alby: July 30, 1993 – November 30, 1998 Sacramento: Took oath of office after special election succeeding B. T. Collins. [7] Dave Cox: December 7, 1998 – November 30, 2004 Roger Niello: December 6, 2004 – November 30, 2010 Placer, Sacramento: Richard Pan: Democratic: December 6, 2010 – November 30, 2012 ...