Placer County
POPULATION: 355,328
INCORPORATION DATE: 1851
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:
- District 1 – Jack Duran
- District 2 – Robert Weygandt
- District 3 – Jim Holmes
- District 4 – Kirk Uhler
- District 5 – Jennifer Montgomery
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Charter
PLACER. County seat, Auburn. Created April 25, 1851. Placer is probably a contraction of the words plaza de oro (the place of gold) and in Spanish means “a place near a river where gold is found.” The county derived its name from the numerous places where the method of extracting gold from the earth, called placer mining, was practiced.
