Smithflat (formerly, Smith's Flat, Smiths Flat, and Smith Flat) is an
unincorporated community in
El Dorado County, California
El Dorado County (), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. The county seat is Placerville. The County is part of the Sacramento- Roseville-A ...
, United States.
It lies 4 km (2.5 mi) east of
Placerville and 7.2 km (4.5 mi) west of
Camino
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Places
*Camino, California, United States, a census-designated place
*Camino, Piedmont, Italy, a town
* Camino, Veneto, Italy, a town
People
*Jaime Camino (1936–2015), Spanish film director and screenwriter
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at an elevation of 2224 feet (678 m).
The Smith's Flat post office opened in 1876 and was renamed to Smithflat in 1895.
The name honors Jeb Smith, a rancher who settled here early.
Smithflat was one of the 93 wagon train stops along the
Johnson Pass Johnson Creek Summit is a mountain pass through the Kenai Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. It is 23 miles long, and the maximum elevation of the pass is 1450 ft. There is a backpacking trail traversing the entire pass, with access from the so ...
route across the Sierra Nevada. The Smith Flat House, built in the 1850s, is the last of these stations still in existence.
It is now a restaurant.
References
External links
Smith Flat House
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in El Dorado County, California
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