THE EL DORADO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Sierra Lower Montane Forests setting.
El Dorado County has 1,707.8 square miles of land in California. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across El Dorado County: Central Sierra Lower Montane Forests, Northern Sierran Foothills, Northern Sierra Upper Montane Forests, among others.
A high mountain block slopes west toward California's Central Valley and drops sharply on its eastern side. Granite landscapes, glacial basins and elevation-dependent conifer forests are prominent regional features.
Regional context: Sierra Nevada ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
El Dorado County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Sierra Lower Montane Forests32.2%
- Northern Sierran Foothills22.2%
- Northern Sierra Upper Montane Forests18.2%
- Central Sierra Mid-Montane Forests15.3%
- Northern Sierra Subalpine Forests7.9%
Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains in El Dorado County
Oak woodland, chaparral and grassland occupy foothills and low coastal mountains around the Central Valley. Narrow agricultural valleys interrupt this landscape of dry summers and wetter winters.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within El Dorado County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with El Dorado County, including El Dorado Hills, Diamond Springs, Georgetown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
El Dorado County by land and water
The Census records 78.5 square miles of water within El Dorado County, or 4.4% of its total area. That share is close to El Dorado County’s 4.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, El Dorado County has 198 times the land area of nearby Pollock Pines CDP (8.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alpine County, Amador County, Placer County, Sacramento County within California. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.