Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Placerville, ID

Placerville is an incorporated city in Boise County, Idaho, about 17 miles east of Horseshoe Bend in the Boise Basin, and it is governed by a mayor and city council.

Placerville received its name because of placer mining in the vicinity, and the townsite was selected on December 1, 1862.

By the early summer of 1863 the town had 300 buildings and a population of 5,000, and at the meeting of the first territorial legislature in Lewiston in 1863 the citizens obtained a charter for their city.

By July 1864, 4,500 mining claims had been recorded in the Placerville district, and the peak mining years were 1863 to 1866, during and immediately after the Civil War.

Placerville's population shrank from 2,500 in 1864 to 318 in 1870 as miners left for other rushes, and by that time a good percentage of the remaining population was Chinese, who worked the less rewarding claims.

An 1899 fire practically destroyed the town, and the streetscape standing today dates mostly from the rebuilding after that fire and another fire ten months later.

The settled areas of Placerville were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Placerville Historic District on September 7, 1984.

The 2020 census counted 48 people in Placerville, down from 53 in 2010, and the 2010 census counted 25 households in the city.

Placerville has two city museums, maintained by public donation and volunteers and open weekends from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and its ZIP code is 83666.