Volcanoville is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

El Dorado County 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- ...

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

. It is located north-northeast of Georgetown, at an elevation of 2992 feet (912 m). A post office operated at Volcanoville from 1930 to 1953. The name is due to early miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.

Education

The

Black Oak Mine Unified School District Black Oak Mine Unified School District (BOMUSD) is a school district headquartered in Georgetown, unincorporated El Dorado County, California. The district, with of land in its territory,

serves Garden Valley.Home page
Black Oak Mine Unified School District. July 20, 2002. Retrieved on October 27, 2010.

Mosquito Fire

Several structures in Volcanoville were destroyed in the

Mosquito Fire The Mosquito Fire was a large wildfire that burned in California's Placer County, California, Placer and El Dorado County, California, El Dorado counties as the state's largest wildfire of 2022. The fire began on September 6, above Oxbow Reserv ...

, a large, destructive

wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identi ...

that burned near the community of Foresthill in the Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests in Placer and

El Dorado El Dorado (, ; Spanish for "the golden"), originally ''El Hombre Dorado'' ("The Golden Man") or ''El Rey Dorado'' ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish in the 16th century to describe a mythical tribal chief (''zipa'') or king ...

counties in

in September and October 2022.

References

Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in El Dorado County, California {{ElDoradoCountyCA-geo-stub