California, El Dorado County
Where Placerville's records are kept. Placerville has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Placerville's own offices, along with State of California offices; the El Dorado County offices are on our El Dorado County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordProperty records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital records
Keeps California birth, death, fetal death, marriage and divorce records, issues certified copies and registers or amends records as the law allows. Accepted orders cannot be canceled or refunded.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts table for Placerville city, California: population estimates, age, race and Hispanic origin, housing, households, education, income and poverty, drawn from census counts and survey data.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
City of Placerville home page listing City Hall at 3101 Center St, (530) 642-5200, and Town Hall at 549 Main St, (530) 642-5232, with city meetings, council members and community events.
Open official site City of PlacervilleCity records
City legal records and public files 3101 Center Street Phone: (530) 642-5531 Fax: (530) 642-5538
Open official site Placerville City ClerkEverything else, organized
11 more Placerville sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Placerville, a place of 10,747 people, is the seat of El Dorado County. Court and property records sit with El Dorado County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Placerville's own offices are in the cards above, and our El Dorado County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 49 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 26 of them worked out or abandoned. The mineral the records name is Gold.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Placerville.
Deeds for property in Placerville are recorded by the El Dorado County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our El Dorado County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Same county
Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.