Volcanoville is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.

[1] It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north-northeast of Georgetown,[2] at an elevation of 2992 feet (912 m).

[2] The name is due to early miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.

[2] The Black Oak Mine Unified School District serves Garden Valley.

[3] Several structures in Volcanoville were destroyed in the Mosquito Fire, a large, destructive wildfire that burned near the community of Foresthill in the Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests in Placer and El Dorado counties in California in September and October 2022.