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Placer County, California
Placer County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: Placer is probably a contraction of the words plaza de oro (the
place of gold) and in Spanish means "a place near a river where gold is found."
The county derived its name from the numerous places where the method of
extracting gold from the earth, called placer mining, was practiced. State & County QuickFacts:
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Neighboring Counties:
- North: Nevada County
- Northeast: Washoe County, Nev.
- Southeast: El Dorado County
- Southwest: Sacramento County
- West: Sutter County
- Northwest: Yuba County
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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, act locally.” |
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Penn Foster High School
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