Blythe,
California - is
a city in Riverside County, California,
United States, in the Colorado River
Valley. Blythe was named after Thomas
Blythe, a gold prospector who
established primary water rights to the
Colorado River in the region in 1877.
The city was incorporated on July 21,
1916.
Blythe is
located near the California/Arizona
border in the Sonoran Desert, at the
junction of Interstate 10 and US 95.
According to the United States Census
Bureau, the city has a total area of
25.0 square miles (64.8 km²), of which
24.2 square miles (62.8 km²) is land and
0.8 square miles (2.0 km²) (3.12%) is
water.
Nearby
communities include Lost Lake and Vidal
to the north, Ripley to the south, and
Ehrenberg, Arizona, to the east. Major
cities in the region include Yuma, AZ
(85 miles), Riverside, CA (172 miles),
Las Vegas, Nevada (200 miles), Phoenix,
AZ (150 miles) and San Bernardino, CA
(140 miles). Blythe is within 4 hours
via car of 10% of the United States’
population.
Tourism is
a major component of the local economy.
Blythe is a stopover city with full
services for travelers between any of
the nearby regions, in particular the
major cities of Los Angeles and Phoenix,
since it is approximately midway between
those two metropolitan areas. The winter
months bring visitors avoiding the
colder climates of the north, when the
population of the area within 50 miles
(80 km) of Blythe has been known to
exceed 500,000. Information
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