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Blythe
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city in Riverside County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Riverside
- Incorporated
- July 21, 1916
- Named after
- Thomas Henry Blythe
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Joseph "Joey" Deconinck
- Vice mayor
- Johnny Rodriguez
- City council
- Sam Burton , Joseph Halby III , Summer Spraggins
- Total
- 27.37 sq mi (70.88 km )
- Land
- 26.58 sq mi (68.85 km )
- Water
- 0.78 sq mi (2.03 km ) 2.90%
- Elevation
- 272 ft (83 m)
- Density
- 689.0/sq mi (266.04/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−08:00 ( PST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−07:00 ( PDT )
- Zip codes
- 92225–92226
- Area code
- 442/760
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Henry Blythe One of the Blythe Intaglios, prehistoric geoglyphs in the Sonoran Desert, across the river from Parker Valley.
Blythe (/blaɪθ/) is a city in eastern Riverside County, California, United States. It is in the Palo Verde Valley of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River, approximately 224 miles (360 km) east of Los Angeles and 150 miles (240 km) west of Phoenix. Blythe was named after Thomas Henry Blythe, a San Francisco financier, who established primary water rights to the Colorado River in the region in 1877. The city was incorporated on July 21, 1916. The population was 18,317 at the 2020 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blythe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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