El Dorado County
| El Dorado County, California | ||||||
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| County of El Dorado | ||||||
Images, from top down, left to right: A barn in El Dorado County, the shore of Lake Tahoe in Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park, the South Fork American River running through the El Dorado hills, Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
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 California's location in the United States |
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| Country |  United States of America |
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| Regions | Sierra Nevada, Gold Country | |||||
| Metropolitan area | Greater Sacramento | |||||
| Incorporated | February 18, 1850 | |||||
| Named for | Spanish for "the golden" and El Dorado | |||||
| County seat | Placerville | |||||
| Largest city | South Lake Tahoe | |||||
| Area | ||||||
| • Total | 1,786 sq mi (4,630 km2) | |||||
| • Land | 1,708 sq mi (4,420 km2) | |||||
| • Water | 78 sq mi (200 km2) | |||||
| Highest elevation | 10,886 ft (3,318 m) | |||||
| Population (April 1, 2010) | ||||||
| • Total | 181,058 | |||||
| • Estimate (2016) | 185,625 | |||||
| • Density | 100/sq mi (39/km2) | |||||
| Time zone | Pacific Time Zone (UTC−8) | |||||
| • Summer (DST) | Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−7) | |||||
| ZIP code | 95762 | |||||
| Area code | 530, 916 | |||||
| FIPS code | 06-017 | |||||
| GNIS feature ID | 277273 | |||||
| Website | www.edcgov.us | |||||
El Dorado County, officially the County of El Dorado, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 181,058. The county seat is Placerville.
El Dorado County is part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is in the historic Gold Country in the Sierra Nevada.
El Dorado County's population has grown as Greater Sacramento has expanded into the region. In the county's unique Lake Tahoe area, environmental awareness and environmental protection initiatives have grown along with the population since the 1960 Winter Olympics, hosted at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in neighboring Placer County.
The present-day site of El Dorado County was once home to the Maidu, Washoe, and Miwok Native American tribes, and is notable for being the site of the 1848 gold discovery that sparked the California Gold Rush. The County of El Dorado was one of California's original 27 counties created effective February 18, 1850 (the number has risen to 58 today). Its name is derived from the Spanish meaning "the gilded/golden".
The final segments of the Pony Express mail route ran through El Dorado County until its replacement with the telegraph service in 1861; U.S. Highway 50 follows the Pony Express route today.
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