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Weimar
Unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	California
County	Placer County
Elevation	2,257 ft (688 m)
ZIP code	95739, 95713
Area code(s)	530
GNIS feature ID	237401

Weimar (formerly, New England Mills and Weimer) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California, located in the Sacramento area. Weimar is located 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south-southwest of Colfax.

By car, Weimar is about one hour from Reno, Nevada and about one hour northeast of Sacramento, California on east I-80. It is directly adjacent to Interstate 80. Amtrak stops at Colfax, California which is about 3 miles east on I-80 past Weimar. Weimar, California was originally named New England Mills. The elevation is about 2300–2600 feet.

Weimar has a campground in it, and also has access to the North Fork of the American River. The former Weimar Sanitorium, a Tuberculosis treatment hospital, is now Weimar Institute, home to the NEWSTART Lifestyle Program. The Institute also includes Weimar College, and Weimar Academy, a boarding school for high school students, both associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is also home to the Weimar Hills Charter School, which offers grades 4th through 8th.

The Weimar post office opened in 1866. Its ZIP code is 95736 and its area code 530.

Municipalities and communities of Placer County, California, United States

County seat: Auburn

Cities and towns	Auburn Colfax Lincoln Loomis Rocklin Roseville

CDPs	Alta Carnelian Bay Dollar Point Dutch Flat Foresthill Granite Bay Kings Beach Kingvale‡ Meadow Vista Newcastle North Auburn Penryn Sheridan Sunnyside-Tahoe City Tahoe Vista Tahoma‡

Unincorporated communities	Alpine Meadows Applegate Baxter Big Bend Blue Canyon Bowman Brockway Cape Horn Casa Loma Chambers Lodge Cisco Cisco Grove Clayton Clipper Gap Donner Eder Elders Corner Emigrant Gap Forebay Four Acres Gold Hill Greekstore Heather Glen Hidden Valley Homewood Hughes Mill Idlewild Iowa Hill Kilaga Springs Lake Forest Lander Crossing Last Chance Magra McCulloh Michigan Bluff Midas Monte Vista Nielsburg Ophir Pinecroft Rainbow Rampart Ramsey Crossing Rawhide Secret Town Soda Springs Squaw Valley Sunnyside Tahoe City Tahoe Pines The Cedars Todd Valley Towle Troy Virginiatown Westville Weimar Whitney Yankee Jims Zuver

Ghost towns	Ackerman Andover Arctic Baltimore Bath Blue Bluffs Bullion Cairns Ceres Flat Chicago Park Coon Creek Deadwood Drum East Auburn Flat Ravine Florence Spring Fort Trojan Frytown Fulda Gilsons Station Goggins Gold Run Indiana Hill Knapp Kulkumish Leta Little Rattlesnake Bar Lone Star Lost Camp Mayflower Millertown Mineral Bar Molma Moss Hills Oilville Pine Grove Pitsokut Ralston Red Point Secret Canyon Secret Ravine Smiths Spruce Stanford Stewarts Flat Stonehill Tamarack Union Shed Vantrent Webster Yorkville

Footnotes	‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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