Placer County, California
Placer County · Auburn is the seat · Sacramento is the capital of California · Roseville is a city · Rocklin is a city · Tahoe City is a community · Folsom is Sacramento County
Auburn is the seat. Sacramento is the capital. Roseville is a city, not the hall. Tahoe is not the hall.
Placer County, California, was created 25 April 1851 from Sutter and Yuba, and named for the placer mines. Auburn is the county seat. Sacramento is the capital of California. Auburn is not the capital. Roseville is not the capital. Do not read this page as Autauga-with-a-ski-lift. Do not read this page as Sacramento-with-a-suburb. Do not read this page as Reno. Prattville is Autauga. Folsom Prison sits in Sacramento County. Reno is Washoe County, Nevada. None of those is this oval.
Roseville is the large city — not the hall. Rocklin is a city — not the hall. Lincoln is a city — not the hall. The Town of Loomis is a town this Sheriff contracts — not a second county. Colfax is a city this Sheriff contracts — not a second county. Tahoe City, Kings Beach, and Olympic Valley are east-slope communities — not the hall. Foresthill, Granite Bay, North Auburn, and Meadow Vista are unincorporated remainder — not a second seat.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — valley remainder, foothill remainder, Tahoe remainder, and two houses this badge still holds at Auburn Jail and South Placer Jail — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Placer County.
Five Supervisors at 175 Fulweiler. They do not sit as the State Assembly.
Placer is a charter county. A five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district, sits at the Placer County Administrative Center, 175 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603. They fund roads, the Maple Street historic court, the Gibson courthouse in Roseville, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Auburn City Council is a city body. Roseville City Council is a city body. The California Legislature sits in Sacramento. None of those is this Board.
The Placer County Superior Court lists the Historic Courthouse at 101 Maple Street, Auburn, and the Hon. Howard G. Gibson Courthouse (main) at 10820 Justice Center Drive, Roseville, plus a jail courtroom at 11801 Go For Broke Road and a juvenile hall at 11270 B Avenue, Auburn. Do not invent one courthouse as the whole map. Confirm live at placer.ca.gov and placer.courts.ca.gov.
The Sheriff is a county officer (California Constitution Article XI; Government Code § 24000). This Sheriff is not on the 2026 gubernatorial table. Elections Code § 1300 (AB 759, 2022) moved sheriff and district attorney to the presidential primary. A sheriff elected in 2022 serves a six-year term; the next regular is the 2028 presidential primary. Placer’s charter did not lock a gubernatorial-year sheriff date before 1 January 2021. Last regular 7 June 2022. Take office at noon on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding election (Gov. Code § 24200). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Sacramento.
I-80 is a pass. Folsom Lake is water. Folsom Prison is Sacramento County.
Interstate 80, State Route 65, State Route 49, and State Route 267 meet on this map. The American River and Folsom Lake are water, not a Sacramento County badge. Donner Summit and the Tahoe north shore are the east slope, not a second county. Nevada is north — Nevada City is that hall. El Dorado is south — Placerville is that hall. Sacramento is southwest — Sacramento the city is that hall and the capital. Washoe County, Nevada, is a different state. Staff who paste a Tahoe ski photograph onto Maple Street, or treat Auburn as the capital, or file Roseville as this county government, or rewrite this county as Autauga-with-a-ski-lift, are on the wrong county.
How a foothill public finds Fulweiler, Richardson, Maple, and Go For Broke
Board of Supervisors: 175 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn. Historic Courthouse: 101 Maple Street, Auburn. Gibson Courthouse: 10820 Justice Center Drive, Roseville. Sheriff Headquarters: 2929 Richardson Drive, Auburn, CA 95603 — (530) 889-7800. Auburn Jail: 2775 Richardson Drive, Auburn, CA 95603 — (530) 745-8500. South Placer Jail: 11801 Go For Broke Road, Roseville, CA 95678 — (916) 409-8100. South Placer Minimum: 11701 Go For Broke Road. North Lake Tahoe Station lists from Tahoe City. South Placer Station: 6140 Horseshoe Bar Road, Suite D, Loomis. Clerk-Recorder-Registrar: 2954 Richardson Drive, Auburn. Confirm live at placer.ca.gov. A student who only knows a Tahoe postcard, or a Sacramento photograph as this county, or treats Roseville City Hall as Auburn Jail, has not found this campus.
Auburn Jail and South Placer still jail. Roseville PD does not. Folsom Prison does not.
Crime in unincorporated Placer — Granite Bay, Foresthill, North Auburn, Meadow Vista, and the remainder — is this Sheriff. Crime in Roseville is often Roseville Police. Crime in Rocklin is often Rocklin Police. Lincoln, Auburn, and the Town of Loomis (contract) and Colfax (contract) are city and town badges or this office’s contract — confirm live. This Sheriff is not Roseville PD. Roseville PD is a city badge. This Sheriff is the county.
Auburn Jail at 2775 Richardson Drive is this Sheriff’s foothill house. South Placer Jail at 11801 Go For Broke Road, Roseville, is this Sheriff’s valley house — in Roseville, not the county hall. Official doors did not show a separate county Department of Corrections taking these houses — do not invent a jailer split.
CDCR is not this Sheriff. Folsom State Prison and CSP-Sacramento sit in Sacramento County. CHP is a state badge. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Roseville PD, to a Folsom prison gate, or to Nevada City (Nevada County).
Care without inventing a gondola as this county government
A peace order served in Granite Bay remainder. A court-ordered transport from 2775 Richardson to 101 Maple without becoming Roseville PD. Search and rescue on the American River canyon. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Tahoe as this oval. Do not invent Sacramento as this hall.
What Placer actually watches
Court calendar on Maple Street and Justice Center Drive. A wreck on I-80. Ice on Donner Summit. High water on the American. Fire in the forest interface. Coordination with Roseville PD, Rocklin PD, Auburn PD, CHP, and Nevada County’s Sheriff without becoming those departments. Coordination with El Dorado’s Sheriff or Washoe County, Nevada, is mutual aid between offices, not a merger. Gold is history. Snow is weather. Neither is Roseville as this oval.
Auburn civic snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: California · County: Placer · Seat: Auburn · Capital of California: Sacramento
- Map: Auburn · Roseville · Rocklin · Lincoln · Tahoe north · I-80 · SR 65 · the American
- Not Roseville as the hall · Not the capital · Not Roseville PD as this oval · Not Folsom Prison · Not Autauga-with-a-ski-lift
- Board: five Supervisors at 175 Fulweiler Avenue (charter)
- Sheriff clock: not 2026 · last regular 2022 · next regular 2028 presidential primary · six-year bridge from AB 759
- Jails: Auburn Jail, 2775 Richardson Drive · South Placer Jail, 11801 Go For Broke Road — this Sheriff still holds them
Orientation adapted from the California Constitution Article XI, Elections Code § 1300, Government Code §§ 24000, 24200, 25304, and 26600, Placer County official pages (placer.ca.gov), Placer Superior Court locations, and the Secretary of State for education. The Sheriff of record is whatever those sources say today. Confirm HQ versus court versus jail, and Roseville PD versus this badge, on official pages before you travel.
What Auburn is not, as this county
- Not the capital of California. Sacramento is.
- Not Roseville. Not Rocklin. Not Lincoln. Not Tahoe City as the county government.
- Not Folsom (Sacramento County). Not Reno.
- Not Roseville Police as this oval. Not Rocklin / Auburn Police. Not CHP.
- Not Autauga-with-a-ski-lift. Not a gondola postcard as this hall.
- Not the Governor (that desk is 2026 in Sacramento).
- Not a campaign flyer.