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California Counties
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California Counties
The U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties.
On January 4, 1850, the California constitutional committee recommended the formation of 18 counties. They were
Benicia, Butte, Fremont, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Monterey, Mount Diablo, Oro, Redding, Sacramento, San Diego, San
Francisco, San Joaquin, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, and Sutter. On April 22, the counties
of Branciforte, Calaveras, Coloma, Colusi, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Trinity, and Yuba were added. Benicia was
renamed Solano, Coloma to El Dorado, Fremont to Yola, Mt. Diablo to Contra Costa, San Jose to Santa Clara, Oro
to Tuolumne, and Redding to Shasta. One of the first state legislative acts regarding counties was to rename
Branciforte County to Santa Cruz, Colusi to Colusa, and Yola to Yolo.
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El Dorado County, California
El Dorado County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Placerville
Year Organized: 1850
Square Miles: 1,712
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Court House: 330 Fair Lane
County Administration Building
Placerville, CA 95667-4103
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
El Dorado -- the far-famed fabulous region of genial clime and
never-fading verdure, where gold and precious stones are as common as rocks and
pebbles, where wines gently flow from fountains. The name, meaning "the gilded
one" in Spanish, appears at the beginning of the 16th century as that of a
mythical Indian chief who was said to have been covered with gold dust during
the performance of religious rites. When the discovery of gold by James W.
Marshall at Coloma in January 1848 became known to the world, California, and
particularly that section where gold was discovered, was called "El Dorado."
From this fact the county received its name.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
El Dorado County was one of the original counties of California, created at the time of statehood in
1850.
El Dorado County is a county located in the Gold Country of the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. The
county seat is Placerville.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,788 square miles (4,631 kmē),
of which, 1,711 square miles (4,431 kmē) of it is land and 77 square miles (200 kmē) of it (4.32%) is
water.
Neighboring Counties:
- East: Douglas County, Nev.
- Southeast: Alpine County
- Southwest: Amador County; Sacramento County
- Northwest: Placer County
Cities and Towns:
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- Folsom |
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- Placerville
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- South Lake Tahoe |
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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