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El Dorado Hills, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95762. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle. 50,547 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

El Dorado Hills within El Dorado County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of El Dorado Hills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of El Dorado Hills, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

El Dorado Hills grew from 42,108 to 50,547 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201042,108
202050,547+8,439 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

815 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 815 fires within 5 miles of El Dorado Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,337 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 56 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined318
Equipment and vehicle use264
Debris and open burning62
Misuse of fire by a minor57
Arson/incendiarism56
Smoking27
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Other causes2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitWYCLIFFE WY EL_DORADO_HI
9 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitLAKE
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitGREEN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBASS
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unit50
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitSCOTT
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitBASS
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 76 workings within 5 miles of El Dorado Hills: 31 occurrences, 21 past producers, 11 unknowns, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Marble Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pilot KnobSilver, GoldOccurrence
Folsom PrisonGraniteProducer
Folsom PrisonGranitePast Producer
Darrington MineChromium, IronPast Producer1914
Joerger MineChromium, IronPast Producer1918
RelianceIronOccurrence
RelianceIronUnknown
Walker MineChromium, IronPast ProducerChromite
Walker MineChromium, IronPast Producer1917

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Governors Village0.2 miles29
Stonegate Village0.5 miles29
Oak Ridge Village0.5 miles29
Crown Village0.7 miles29
Saint Andrews Village0.8 miles29
Ridgeview Village1.1 miles29
Franciscan Village1.5 miles29
Oak Tree Village1.5 miles29

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on El Dorado HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2218053The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867020. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.