Blythe, CA
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Local News — Blythe
- Vandalism Suspect Injured After Officer-Involved Shooting In Riverside County: Police — Patch
- Big rig crash kills three construction workers in Blythe; two were Coachella residents — KESQ
- Landsat View of Blythe, California — USGS (.gov)
- Blythe Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution — IQAir
- Have you seen missing California man Jeremy Whisennand? — NBC News
Official Local Resources
City of Blythe · Riverside County · ca.gov · California Department of Motor Vehicles
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.