El Dorado County, California

El Dorado County
County
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
Flag Seal
Interactive map of El Dorado County
Location in the state of California
Country	United States
State	California
Regions	Northern California, Sierra Nevada, Gold Country
Metropolitan area	Greater Sacramento
Incorporated	February 18, 1850[1]
Named for	Spanish for "the golden" and El Dorado
County seat	Placerville
Largest community	El Dorado Hills
Government
• Type	Council–CAO
• Body	Board of Supervisors[2] John Hidahl George Turnboo Wendy Thomas Lori Parlin Brooke Laine
• Chair	Lori Parlin
• Vice Chair	Wendy Thomas
• Chief Administrative Office[3]	Don Ashton
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 [4]	10,886 ft (3,318 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	191,185
• Density	110/sq mi (41/km2)
Time zone	UTC−8 (Pacific Time Zone)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (Pacific Daylight Time)
ZIP code	95762
Area code	530, 916, 279
FIPS code	06-017
GNIS feature ID	277273
Congressional districts	3rd, 5th
Website	www.edcgov.us

El Dorado County (/ˌɛl dəˈrɑːdoʊ/ ^ⓘ), 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] The county is part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located entirely in the Sierra Nevada, from the historic Gold Country in the western foothills to the High Sierra in the east. El Dorado County's population has grown as Greater Sacramento has expanded into the region. Where the county line crosses US 50 at Clarksville, the distance to Sacramento is 15 miles. In the county's high altitude eastern end at Lake Tahoe, environmental awareness and environmental protection initiatives have grown along with the population since the 1960 Winter Olympics, hosted at the former Squaw Valley Ski Resort in neighboring Placer County.