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County Information



Some of the cities, towns, and places in Placer County are Alta, Applegate, Auburn, Baxter, Blue Canyon, Carnelian Bay, Cedar Flat, Colfax, Dollar Point, Dutch Flat, Emigrant Gap, Foresthill, Granite Bay, Iowa Hill, Kings Beach, Kingvale, Lincoln, Loomis, Meadow Vista, Newcastle, North Auburn, Northstar, Olympic Valley, Ophir, Penryn, Rocklin, Roseville, Sheridan, Sunnyside-Tahoe City, Tahoe Vista, Tahoma, Weimar

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Placer County ( PLASS-ərr; Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 348,432. The county seat is Auburn.Placer County is included in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area. It is in both the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada regions, in what is known as the Gold Country. The county stretches roughly 65 miles from Sacramento's suburbs at Roseville to the Nevada border and the shore of Lake Tahoe.