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Menifee
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city in Riverside County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Riverside
- Region
- Southern California
- Incorporated
- October 1, 2008
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Ricky Estrada
- Acting mayor
- Bob Karwin
- City council
- Dean Deines , Ben Diederich , Daniel Temple
- City manager
- Armando G. Villa
- Total
- 46.62 sq mi (120.75 km )
- Land
- 46.48 sq mi (120.37 km )
- Water
- 0.15 sq mi (0.38 km ) 0.30%
- Elevation
- 1,424 ft (434 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 117,041
- Rank
- 6th in Riverside County, 55th in California, 259th in the United States
- Density
- 2,353.68/sq mi (908.76/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Menifee is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and is part of the Inland Empire. Named after a local miner, Luther Menifee Wilson, it was settled in the 19th century, and incorporated as a city in 2008. As of the 2020 census, Menifee had a population of 102,527.
The city is centrally located in Southern California in the Menifee Valley. It is almost 15 miles (24 km) north of Temecula and just north of Murrieta. Menifee is roughly 46 square miles (100 km) in size and has an elevation of 1,424 feet (434 m). The incorporated City of Menifee includes the communities of Sun City, Quail Valley, and Romoland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Menifee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.