El Dorado County, California along with the population since the 1960 Winter Olympics, hosted at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in neighboring Placer County. The present-day site of El Dorado County was once home to the Maidu, Washoe, and Miwok Native American tribes, and is notable for being the site of the 1848 gold discovery that sparked the California Gold Rush. The County of El Dorado was one of California's original 27 counties created effective February 18, 1850 (the number has risen to 58 today). Its name is derived from the Spanish meaning "the gilded/golden". The final segments of the Pony Express mail route ran
El Dorado City, Nevada Mills were moved down the canyon from El Dorado City, to the landing at the mouth of the canyon and refurbished. El Dorado City, was first located in the Mohave County of Arizona Territory before it became part of the state of Nevada in 1867. However the dispute over this transfer was not settled in favor of Nevada until 1870 when El Dorado City became part of Lincoln County, Nevada. El Dorado City remained in existence into the 1880s. The site of El Dorado City is now in Clark County, Nevada. El Dorado City, Nevada El Dorado City, which is