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Placerville, Idaho

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Horseshoe Bend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83666. It lies near Sailor Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Placerville quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,324 feet above sea level.

Placerville within Boise County

On record in Placerville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Placerville fell from 53 to 48 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
201053
202048-5 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Placerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 3 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
Natural68
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST FORK
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN FIRE
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSWEDE CREEK
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsIOWA MINE ROAD
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOPHIR CREEK
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreBoise National ForestOLD HAHN
6 September 2006Natural3.0 acresBoise National ForestGRANITE
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSWEDE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 91 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 91 workings within 5 miles of Placerville: 47 past producers, 24 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc. 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
Alder Creek & West ForkThorium, Gold, Zirconium, Niobium (Columbium)Past Producer
BelshazzarGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Blue RockGold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Blue Rock DepositLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Blue Rock DepositLead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, SilverUnknown
Blue Rock GroupLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Buckskin Group ProspectGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, VanadiumOccurrenceBismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Buckskin MineLead, Silver, Bismuth, Vanadium, ZincOccurrence
Buckskin MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Bummer Mill DiggingsGold, REE, MolybdenumUnknown

Every working recorded in Boise County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Placerville in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPlacerville-Town Creek RAWS reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 90 MPH.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPlacerville-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines along Harris Creek Road and knocked down trees and power lines in the Wilderness Ranch area.
May 1998HailPlacerville-A cluster of severe thunderstorms produced hailstones ranging in size from .8 inch to 1.75 inches over the Boise Mountains.
June 1996Heavy RainPlacerville-no account filed
December 1996HailPlacerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boise 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
Granite1.1 miles20
Star Ranch Summer Home Area2.4 miles20
Quartzburg2.5 miles20
Centerville3.6 miles20
New Centerville4.7 miles20
Pioneerville5.6 miles19
Grimes Pass8.5 miles13
Idaho City9.9 miles19

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 PlacervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1512463The 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 397043. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.