Placerville, California (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Placerville (pronounced PLASS-er-ville; formerly Old Dry Diggings, Dry Diggings, and Hangtown[2]) is the county seat of El Dorado County, California. The population was 9,610 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Placerville, is located at 384345N 1204811W / 38.729267N 120.803000W / 38.729267; -120.803000.[3] It is located along U.S. Route 50 where it crosses State Route 49 and is the location of several traffic signals along the highway, which is otherwise a freeway. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15.0 km), all of it land. It is about 500 metres above sea level, and is in the Sierra Nevada foothills.