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.
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
- Placerville Historic Districtlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresPlacerville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 53 | |
| 2020 | 48 | -5 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Idaho Basin quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1894 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 68 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | WEST FORK |
| 9 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Boise National Forest | TOWN FIRE |
| 9 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SWEDE CREEK |
| 9 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | IOWA MINE ROAD |
| 7 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | OPHIR CREEK |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Boise National Forest | OLD HAHN |
| 6 September 2006 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Boise National Forest | GRANITE |
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | SWEDE CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 91 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alder Creek & West Fork | Thorium, Gold, Zirconium, Niobium (Columbium) | Past Producer | ||
| Belshazzar | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Rock | Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Rock Deposit | Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Blue Rock Deposit | Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Blue Rock Group | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Buckskin Group Prospect | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Vanadium | Occurrence | Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite | |
| Buckskin Mine | Lead, Silver, Bismuth, Vanadium, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Buckskin Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Bummer Mill Diggings | Gold, REE, Molybdenum | Unknown |
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Placerville | - | Town Creek RAWS reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 90 MPH. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Placerville | - | 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 1998 | Hail | Placerville | - | A cluster of severe thunderstorms produced hailstones ranging in size from .8 inch to 1.75 inches over the Boise Mountains. |
| June 1996 | Heavy Rain | Placerville | - | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Hail | Placerville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite | 1.1 miles | 20 | |
| Star Ranch Summer Home Area | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Quartzburg | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Centerville | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| New Centerville | 4.7 miles | 20 | |
| Pioneerville | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Grimes Pass | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Idaho City | 9.9 miles | 19 |
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 Placerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1512463 | The 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.








