Coordinates: 38°51′49″N120°26′29″W / 38.86361°N 120.44139°W
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| Raffetto | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Raffetto Location in California  Raffetto Raffetto (the US) | |
| Coordinates: 38°51′49″N120°26′29″W / 38.86361°N 120.44139°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | El Dorado County |
| Elevation [1] | 4,701 ft (1,433 m) |
Raffetto is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. [1] It is located 6.25 miles (10 km) north of Riverton [2] and some 20 miles northeast of Placerville at an elevation of 4,701 feet (1,433 m). [1]
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
El Dorado County, officially the County of El Dorado, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 181,058. The county seat is Placerville.
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second-most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.
Raffetto lies along the Union Valley Reservoir, formed in 1963 by damming the Big Silver Creek, Jones Fork Silver Creek, Tells Creek, Wench Creek of the American River, within the Eldorado National Forest.
Union Valley Reservoir is a reservoir in eastern El Dorado County, California, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Placerville. The 277,000 acre feet (342,000,000 m3) lake is in Eldorado National Forest in the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 4,870 feet (1,480 m).
The American River is a 120-mile-long river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley. Via the Sacramento River, it is part of the San Francisco Bay watershed. This river is fed by the melting snowpack of the Sierra Nevada and its many headwaters and tributaries, including the North Fork American River, the Middle Fork American River, and the South Fork American River.
Eldorado National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range, in eastern California.
The name "Raffetto" appears in nearby Newtown and Placerville. Members include John Augustus Raffetto (1874-1954) and Michael Raffetto (1899-1990).
Newtown is a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is located 2.25 miles (3.6 km) south of Camino, at an elevation of 2447 feet. The ZIP code is 95667. The community is inside area code 530.
John Augustus Raffetto, Sr. was an Italian-American businessman who founded the First National Bank of Placerville and ran the Ivy House and Cary House hotels.
Michael Raffetto was an American radio actor who starred as Paul Barbour (1932-1956) in the NBC Radio series One Man's Family and as Jack Packard in I Love a Mystery during the heyday of radio in the 1930s and 1940s.
