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Riverside, California

Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River.[10] It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Riverside is the 59th-most-populous city in the United States and the 12th-most-populous city in California. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 314,998.[7] Along with San Bernardino, Riverside is a principal city in the nation's 13th-largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (pop. 4,599,839) ranks in population just below San Francisco (4,749,008) and above Detroit (4,392,041).

Riverside

United States

October 11, 1883 (1883-10-11)[1]

March 5, 1907 (1907-03-05)[2]

81.54 sq mi (211.18 km2)

81.23 sq mi (210.38 km2)

0.31 sq mi (0.80 km2)

827 ft (252 m)

314,998

317,261

59th in the United States
12th in California

3,877.85/sq mi (1,497.28/km2)

2,276,703 (US: 19th)

3,741.1/sq mi (1,444.4/km2)

4,599,839 (US: 13th)

92501–92509, 92513–92519, 92521–92522

Riverside was founded in the early 1870s. It is the birthplace of the California citrus industry and home of the Mission Inn, the nation's largest Mission Revival Style building.[11] It is also home to the Riverside National Cemetery and the Eastern Division of the Federal District Court for the Central District of California.


The University of California, Riverside, is in the northeastern part of the city. The university hosts the Riverside Sports Complex. Other attractions in Riverside include the Fox Performing Arts Center, Museum of Riverside, which houses exhibits and artifacts of local history, the California Museum of Photography, the California Citrus State Historic Park, Castle Park, and the Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree, the last of California's two original navel orange trees.[12]

97 Berry Road

103 Barton/Gem

104 I-215 Corridor

105 Sycamore/Central

106 East Blaine

107 Alta Cresta Remainder

108 Lake Hills/Victoria Grove

111 University City

112 Kaliber

113 Barton/Station

171,669 (56.5%) ,

White

21,421 (7.0%) ,

African American

3,467 (1.1%) ,

Native American

22,566 (7.4%) (1.7% Filipino, 1.6% Chinese, 1.1% Korean, 1.0% Vietnamese, 1.0% Indonesian, 0.1% Japanese, 0.1% Pakistani),

Asian

1,219 (0.4%) ,

Pacific Islander

68,111 (22.4%) from , and 15,418 (5.1%) from two or more races.

other races

or Latino of any race were 148,953 persons (49.0%);

Hispanic

Museum

California Citrus State Historic Park

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry

at the University of California, Riverside (not open to the public).

Entomology Research Museum

March Field Air Museum

Mission Inn Museum

Riverside Art Museum

Museum of Riverside

housing outdoor folk art

Tio's Tacos

at the Sherman Indian High School

Sherman Indian Museum

Sweeney Art Gallery, an extension of the University of California, Riverside

The Stahl Center Museum of Culture at the La Sierra University

University of California, Riverside California Museum of Photography

World Museum of Natural History at the La Sierra University

Southern California Railway Museum

[74]

California Baptist University

[75]

La Sierra University

[76] (branch campus in Riverside)

National University

[77]

Riverside City College

Riverside Royals College

[78][79][80]

University of California, Riverside

California Riverside Ballet

Largest cities in Southern California

Ranchos of California

Saint Andrew Orthodox Christian Church

List of U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations

Brown Jr, John and James Boyd. History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties; With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses of the Period of Growth and Achievement, 3 volumes, The Western Historical Association, 1922. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.

Gunther, Jane Davies. Riverside County, California, Place Names; Their Origins and Their Stories, Riverside. 1984.  84-72920.

LCCN

Patterson, Tom. A Colony For California; Riverside's First Hundred Years. Second Edition 1996. The Museum Press of the Riverside Museum Associates, Riverside.  0935661247.

ISBN

Patterson, Tom. Landmarks of Riverside; and the Stories Behind Them. 1964. Press~Enterprise Co., Riverside.  64-15204.

LCCN

Durian, Hal (2013). True Stories of Riverside and the Inland Empire. Charleston, SC: The History Press.  978-1-6094-9773-6. OCLC 822895113

ISBN

Hall, Joan H. (2003). Cottages, Colonials and Community Places of Riverside, California. Riverside, CA: Highgrove Press.  0-9631618-5-7. OCLC 55511547

ISBN

Klotz, Esther H.; Hall, Joan H. (2005). Adobes, Bungalows, and Mansions of Riverside, California. Riverside, CA: Highgrove Press.  0-9631618-6-5. OCLC 57498974

ISBN

Klotz, Esther H. (1972). Riverside and the Day the Bank Broke. Riverside, CA: Rubidoux Press.  532580

OCLC

Lech, Steve (2007). Riverside 1870–1940. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.  978-0-7385-4716-9. OCLC 127273299.

ISBN

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