Cameron Park, California
| Cameron Park, California | |
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| CDP | |
Panoramic view of Cameron Park
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 Location in El Dorado County and the state of California |
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 Cameron Park, California
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| Coordinates: 38°40′08″N 120°59′14″W / 38.66889°N 120.98722°WCoordinates: 38°40′08″N 120°59′14″W / 38.66889°N 120.98722°W | |
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 United States
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| State |
 California
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| County | El Dorado |
| Area | |
| • Total | 28.945 km2 (11.176 sq mi) |
| • Land | 28.766 km2 (11.107 sq mi) |
| • Water | 0.179 km2 (0.069 sq mi) 0.62% |
| Elevation | 365 m (1,198 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 18,228 |
| • Density | 630/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 95682 |
| Area code(s) | 530 |
| FIPS code | 06-10256 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1733968 |
Cameron Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in El Dorado County, California, United States and is part of the Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 18,228 at the 2010 census, up from 14,549 at the 2000 census. Cameron Park is a community located in the Northern California Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada foothills, approximately 30 miles (50 km) east of Sacramento and 70 miles (110 km) west of South Lake Tahoe.
The original Native American inhabitants of the area surrounding Cameron Park were Nisenan, or Southern Maidu Indians. Grinding rocks and burial mounds serve as glimpses of the past and are still visible in various locations in and near Cameron Park.
Modern development accelerated in the area when Larry Cameron purchased 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of foothill land in the 1950s for development purposes, first for ranching, then involving housing, a golf course, parks, a lake and a small airport. In the years since then, the land has slowly been sub-divided into lots of varying sizes, including ranch-sized properties and medium and high density residential neighborhoods. Today, Cameron Park contains a mix of ranches, single family homes, condominiums, apartments and businesses.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 11.2 square miles (29 km2), of which 11.1 square miles (29 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.62%) is water.
Cameron Park is situated in an interior Chaparral zone or brush zone just east of the Central Valley (California). It is the closest population center to the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve. Native vegetation includes an abundance of redbud and manzanita bushes, and brush in general. Where treed the native trees are primarily gray pines, and oak trees with some small groves of ponderosa pines starting in the higher elevation zones. The elevation of Cameron Park varies between approximately 1,200 and 1,450 feet (370 and 440 m) above sea level, and is not considered in the snow zone of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east, which is typically between 3,000 and 5,000 feet of elevation and above.
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