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Unincorporated community in California, United States For the adjacent body of water, see Echo Lake (California). For other uses, see Echo Lake (disambiguation).

Unincorporated community in California, United States

Echo Lake
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 38°50′02″N 120°02′30″W / 38.83389°N 120.04167°W / 38.83389; -120.04167
Country	United States
State	California
County	El Dorado County
Elevation	7,539 ft (2,298 m)
Population
• Total	101

Echo Lake (formerly, Echo) is a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 50 in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-northwest of Echo Summit. Echo Lake's nearest neighboring town is Little Norway. The ZIP code is 95721. The community is inside area code 530. The elevation of Echo Lake is 7539 feet (2298 m). The average snowpack per year is 10.5 feet, with over 15 feet of snow depositing in certain areas. Precipitation and accumulation at Echo Lake can be found in California Data Exchange Center stations located at Echo Peak (EP5) and Echo Summit (ECS).

Echo post office operated from 1888 to 1913, with a closure from 1910 to 1911. Echo Lake post office operated from 1926 to 1973.

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Echo Lake, California
^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 480. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

v t e Municipalities and communities of El Dorado County, California, United States
County seat: Placerville
Cities	Placerville South Lake Tahoe	El Dorado County map
CDPs	Auburn Lake Trails Cameron Park Camino Cold Springs Coloma Diamond Springs El Dorado Hills Georgetown Grizzly Flats Meyers Pollock Pines Shingle Springs Tahoma‡
Unincorporated communities	Camp Richardson Clarksville Cool Echo Lake El Dorado Fair Play Fallen Leaf Frenchtown Fresh Pond Garden Valley Gold Hill Greenwood Kelsey Kyburz Latrobe Little Norway Lotus Meeks Bay Mount Aukum Nashville Newtown Omo Ranch Outingdale Pacific Phillips Pilot Hill Pino Grande Pleasant Valley Quintette Rescue Riverton Sciots Camp Sierra Springs Sly Park Smithflat Somerset Strawberry Twin Bridges Volcanoville White Hall
Former settlements	Buckeye Flat Caldor Green Valley Higgins Point Indak Jayhawk Powningville Rubicon Rubicon Springs Salmon Falls Wentworth Springs Yalisumni
Footnotes	‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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