Unincorporated community in California, United States
38°42′42″N
120°57′05″W
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38.71167°N 120.95139°W
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38.71167; -120.95139
Unincorporated community in California, United States
Rescue
, formerly
Green Valley, El Dorado County, California
, is an
unincorporated community
in
El Dorado County
,
California
.
[1]
It is located north-northwest of
Shingle Springs
and north-northeast of
Cameron Park
.
[2]
The
zip code
is 95672, and Rescue is located in
area code 530
. The town lies at an elevation of 1214 feet (370 m).
[1]
Locale
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Rescue consists of primarily
farmland
,
vineyards
are a part of the
Sierra Foothills AVA
and
ranches
with an expanding amount of residential neighborhoods and businesses. Neighborhoods vary from tightly knit semi-suburban areas to more rural, spread out neighborhoods. Downtown Rescue is quite small, with only a post office,
[3]
Fire Station,
[4]
two churches, and a Community Center
[5]
to distinguish it from the more rural areas. A restaurant operated in the former quarters of a longtime business known as Rescue Store
[6]
which also sold gasoline, but has been closed for a few years.
History
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The town of Rescue
[2]
was established in 1895. The story goes that Andrew Hare was "rescued" from poverty by his mining, and named the town Rescue. The town was once a stop on the
Pony Express
[7]
trail between
Placerville
and
Folsom
.
Education
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Rescue is served by the
Rescue Union School District
at the primary and middle school level. At the high school level, it is served by the
El Dorado Union High School District
, mainly at the
Ponderosa High School
campus.
Geography
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Pine Hill Ecological Reserve
is located in Rescue. The Reserve is one unit of the much larger Pine Hill Preserve
[8]
system that consists of five separate units of varying size that total more than 4,000 acres (16 km2) and protects eight rare plants and their
gabbro
soil habitat.
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