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Placerville Idaho Map

Explore Placerville, Idaho, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Placerville, Idaho

How to Use This Placerville, Idaho Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Placerville, Idaho. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Idaho or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Placerville.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Placerville
State	Idaho (ID)
County	Boise County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Boise)

Latitude	43.943227
Longitude	-115.94706
Population	48
Density	18.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	83666
Area Code	208
County Seat	Idaho City
School District	Basin School District 72

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About Placerville, Idaho

Placerville is a locality in Boise County, Idaho, United States. It is a small community with a population of 48. The population density is 18.5 people per km². Placerville is located at 43.9432°N, 115.9471°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Boise) timezone. Placerville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 83666.

Placerville emerges from the high, rugged terrain where the persistent Woof Creek carves its path through the earth, marking the transition between the quiet basin of Sailor Gulch and the vast expanse of the Boise National Forest. It lies 26.1 miles north-northeast of Boise, ID (from Boise, ID: bearing 29°T), and is situated 31.9 miles northeast of Meridian. The air here holds a crisp, thin clarity, cooling rapidly as the sun retreats behind the distant, jagged silhouette of the Sawtooth Range, leaving the pines to cast long, indigo shadows across the uneven ground. This landscape is defined by the coarse texture of granite and the scent of dry needles, a place where the earth seems to hold its breath under the immense, unblinking sky of the Mountain West.

Placerville carries the heavy, quiet weight of a gold-rush origin, its history etched into the weathered timber of structures that have survived the relentless cycles of freezing winters and parched summers. While the feverish industry of the early prospectors has long since faded, the regional economy persists through a slow, deliberate connection to the land, far removed from the frantic pace of distant centers. Life in Placerville moves with the cadence of the seasons, a steady rhythm punctuated by the occasional passage of a vehicle on a gravel road or the rustle of wind through the brush. To walk these paths is to recognize a stubborn endurance, a defiance of the slow erosion of time that keeps the spirit of the site as sharp and resilient as the alpine light.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Boise National Forest (National Forest) — 0.4 mi, 181° S · 2.6M acres
Boise Basin Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 8.8 mi, 127° SE
Boise Basin Experimental Area Experimental Research Area (Recreation Easement) — 8.8 mi, 127° SE
The Ribbon Tree (Monument) — 9.8 mi, 145° SE
The Pioneer Fire of 2016 (Monument) — 9.8 mi, 145° SE
South Fork Payette Suitable - Recreational River (Wild & Scenic River) — 10.5 mi, 342° N · 2,588 acres
Bogus Basin Ski Area Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 12.7 mi, 207° SW
Boise Front Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 18.8 mi, 215° SW
Boise River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 19.9 mi, 180° S
Baird Cabin (Monument) — 23.6 mi, 313° NW
Above and Below (Public Artwork) — 25.6 mi, 221° SW
Table Rock Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 25.8 mi, 203° SW
Idaho Film Society (Theatre) — 25.8 mi, 210° SW
Idaho museum of mining and geology (Museum) — 25.8 mi, 205° SW
Gallery 601 (Gallery) — 26.1 mi, 210° SW
BoDo CINEMA (Cinema) — 26.2 mi, 210° SW
Capitol Contemporary Gallery (Gallery) — 26.2 mi, 209° SW
The Flicks (Cinema) — 26.3 mi, 209° SW
The Benjamin Victor Gallery (Gallery) — 26.7 mi, 208° SW
Historic Broadway Block (Attraction) — 27.3 mi, 207° SW
Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Theatre) — 27.6 mi, 198° S
Idaho Aquarium (Aquarium) — 28.5 mi, 215° SW
Northwest Science Museum Vision Center (Museum) — 29.0 mi, 220° SW
Placer & Dredge Mining Prohibition Anadromous Spawning Area (National Conservation Area) — 29.8 mi, 046° NE · 90k acres
Sawtooth Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 34.5 mi, 083° E · 218k acres
Sawtooth National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 34.5 mi, 083° E · 754k acres
Sawtooth National Forest (National Forest) — 36.6 mi, 114° SE · 1.8M acres
The Haunted World (Theme Park) — 36.8 mi, 239° SW
Branson Hollow (Attraction) — 37.4 mi, 255° W
Frank Church-River Of No Return Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 40.9 mi, 029° NE · 2.4M acres

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