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'''El Dorado County''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|ɛ|l|_|d|ə|ˈ|r|ɑː|d|oʊ|audio=En-us-el dorado.ogg}}; ''El Dorado'', [[Spanish language|Spanish]] for "The Golden [one]"), officially the '''County of El Dorado''', is a [[List of counties in California|county]] located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]]. As of the [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]], the population was 191,185.<ref>{{Cite web|title=El Dorado County, California|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0500000US06017|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=January 30, 2022}}</ref> The [[county seat]] is [[Placerville, California|Placerville]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web |url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712220218/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=July 12, 2012 }}</ref> The county is part of the [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]]-[[Roseville, California|Roseville]]-[[Arden-Arcade, California|Arden-Arcade]], CA [[Greater Sacramento|Metropolitan Statistical Area]]. It is located entirely in the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|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 {{convert|15|mi}}. 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 [[Palisades Tahoe|Squaw Valley Ski Resort]] in neighboring [[Placer County]].
==History==
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==Government and policing==
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===Policing===
The El Dorado County Sheriff provides court protection, county jail administration, and coroner service for all of the county and provides patrol and detective services for the unincorporated areas of the county. Incorporated cities Placerville, population 11,000, and South Lake Tahoe, population 22,000, have municipal police departments.
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===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''El Dorado County, California – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop
!Pop
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – El Dorado County, California|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=0500000US06017&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|132,725
|144,689
|style='background: #ffffe6; |140,141
|79.91%
▲|73.30%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|745
|1,296
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,436
|1,436▼
|0.72%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.75%
▲|0.75%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|1,553
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,273
|0.86%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.67%
▲|0.67%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|3,250
|6,143
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9,024
|3.39%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.72%
▲|4.72%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|169
|261
|style='background: #ffffe6; |276
|0.
|0.14%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.14%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|
|237
|318
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,215
|0.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.64%
▲|0.64%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race
|3,335
|4,923
|style='background: #ffffe6; |11,361
|2.72%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5.94%
▲|5.94%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|14,566
|21,875
|style='background: #ffffe6; |26,459
|12.08%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13.84%
▲|13.84%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''156,299'''
|'''181,058'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''191,185'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}
▲''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''
=== 2011 ===
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{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|1,419|1,520|24|California}}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
▲|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="3" | Election results from statewide races
|-
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==Asbestos==
Portions of El Dorado County are known to contain natural [[asbestos]] formations near the surface.<ref name="dirty">{{Citation|last=Raloff |first=Janet |title=Dirty Little Secret |newspaper=Science News |date=July 8, 2006 |url=http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060708/bob9.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713075111/http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060708/bob9.asp |archive-date=July 13, 2007 }}</ref>
| last1 =Meeker
| first1 =G.P.
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In 2003, after construction of the Oak Ridge High School (El Dorado Hills) soccer field, the federal [[Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry]] found that some student athletes, coaches and school workers had received substantial exposures. The inside of the school needed to be cleaned of dust.<ref name="dirty"/>
== Sister
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Warabi, Saitama|Warabi]], [[Saitama Prefecture]], Japan is a sister
==Communities==
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