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Rocklin is a city in Placer County, California, about 22 miles (35 km) from Sacramento, and about 6.1 miles (9.8 km) northeast of Roseville in the Sacramento metropolitan area. Besides Roseville, it shares borders with Granite Bay, Loomis and Lincoln. As of the 2020 census, Rocklin's population was 71,601. [5]
Placer County ( / ˈplæsər / PLASS-ərr; Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404,739. [4] The county seat is Auburn. [5] Placer County is included in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.
Sierra College. / 38.788637; -121.209496. Sierra College is a public community college in Rocklin, California. It is part of the Sierra Joint Community College District, a district that covers over 3,200 square miles (8,300 km 2 ), serves Placer, Nevada and parts of El Dorado and Sacramento counties.
An intermontane valley at approximately 4,850 feet (1,480 m) elevation, Sierra Valley is surrounded by mountains ranging in elevation from 6,000 to 8,000 feet (2,400 m). The huge valley covering about 590 square miles (1,500 km 2) [1] is a down-faulted basin, formerly a lake of similar geologic origin to Lake Tahoe to the south, now filled with ...
Sacramento River. The Sacramento Valley ( Spanish: Valle de Sacramento) [2] [3] is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River. It encompasses all or parts of ten Northern California counties. Although many areas of the ...
The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state. It covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 km 2 ), [1] about 11% of ...
15,775,319. Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties. [1] [2] Its main population centers include the San Francisco Bay Area (anchored by the cities of San Jose, San ...
Amador County ( / ˈæmədɔːr / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,474. [4] The county seat is Jackson. [5] Amador County, located within California's Gold Country, is known as "The Heart of the Mother Lode ". There is a substantial viticultural industry ...