Placerville
Placerville is a town in El Dorado County in California's Gold Country. It was a key supply hub during the Gold Rush, and was California's third-largest town when it was incorporated in 1857.
- Type: Town with 10,100 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of El Dorado County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Dry Diggings”, “Dry Diggins”, “Hangtown”, “Old Dry Diggings”, “Old Dry Diggins”, “Placerville, CA”, and “Placerville, California”
- Postal code: 95667
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fountain and Tallman Soda Factory Museum and Placerville Airport.
Fountain and Tallman Soda Factory Museum
Museum
The Fountain-Tallman Soda Works is a historic building in Placerville, El Dorado County, California. It currently houses the Fountain & Tallman Museum, which is owned and operated by the El Dorado County Historical Society.
Placerville Airport
Aerodrome
Placerville Airport is three miles east of Placerville, in El Dorado County, California, United States. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation airport. Placerville Airport is situated 2½ miles east of Placerville.
Placerville Union Cemetery
Cemetery
Placerville Union Cemetery, formerly Union Cemetery, is a burial ground formed in 1871 by a group of fraternal organizations, and located in Placerville, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Dorado.
El Dorado
Village
El Dorado is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is located 4 miles southwest of Placerville, at an elevation of 1608 feet. El Dorado is situated 4 miles southwest of Placerville.
Placerville
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: El Dorado County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.7296° or 38° 43′ 47″ north
Longitude
-120.7985° or 120° 47′ 55″ west
Population
10,100
Elevation
1,867 feet (569 metres)
IATA airport code
PVF
Open location code
84CXP6H2+RH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Placerville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلاسيرفيلي، إل دورادو، كاليفورنيا”
- Arabic: “بليسرفيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Pleyservill”
- Basque: “Placerville”
- Belarusian: “Пласервіл”
- Bulgarian: “Плейсървил”
- Catalan: “Placerville”
- Cebuano: “Placerville”
- Chechen: “Плейсервилл”
- Chinese: “Placerville”
- Chinese: “普莱瑟维尔”
- Chinese: “普萊瑟維爾”
- Croatian: “Placerville”
- Czech: “Placerville”
- Danish: “Placerville”
- Dutch: “Placerville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بليسرفيل”
- Esperanto: “Placerville”
- French: “Placerville”
- German: “Placerville”
- Gilaki: “پلاسیرویل”
- Haitian: “Placerville”
- Hebrew: “פלייסרוויל”
- Hungarian: “Placerville”
- Irish: “Placerville”
- Italian: “Placerville”
- Japanese: “プラサーヴィル”
- Japanese: “プラサービル”
- Korean: “플레이서빌”
- Ladin: “Placerville”
- Malagasy: “Placerville, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Placerville”
- Malayalam: “പ്ലാസർവില്ലെ, കാലിഫോർണിയ”
- Malayalam: “പ്ലാസർവില്ലെ”
- Mazanderani: “پلسرویل (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “پلسرویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Placerville”
- Newari: “प्लेसरभिल, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “प्लेसरभिल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Placerville”
- Norwegian: “Placerville”
- Pampanga: “Placerville, California”
- Pampanga: “Placerville”
- Persian: “پلسرویل”
- Persian: “پلیسرویل، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “پلیسرویل”
- Polish: “Placerville”
- Portuguese: “Placerville”
- Romanian: “Placerville, California”
- Romanian: “Placerville”
- Russian: “Пласервилл”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Placerville”
- Serbian: “Placerville”
- Serbian: “Plaservil”
- Serbian: “Пласервил”
- Serbian: “Плејсервил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Placerville, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Placerville”
- Slovak: “Placerville”
- Slovenian: “Placerville”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلئیسرویل، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Placerville”
- Swedish: “Placerville, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Placerville”
- Tagalog: “Placerville, California”
- Tagalog: “Placerville”
- Tatar: “Плейсервилл (Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Плейсервилл”
- Turkish: “Placerville, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Placerville”
- Ukrainian: “Плейсервілл”
- Urdu: “پلیسرویل، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Placerville”
- Uzbek: “Плаcервилле”
- Volapük: “Placerville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Placerville, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Placerville”
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