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Riverside County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from
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Orange County
to the Colorado River, which is the border with Arizona. This county is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area.
As of 2000 the population
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was 1,545,387. The county seat is Riverside.
Geographically, the
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county is desert. Most of Joshua Tree National Park is located in the county. Riverside County lies inland of Los Angeles, and large numbers of Los Angeles workers have moved to the county in recent years to take advantage of relatively affordable housing costs. Alongside neighboring San Bernardino County, it is one of the fastest growing parts of Greater Los Angeles. This spawned a wave of toll road construction in the area in the 1990s, starting with the addition of toll commuter lanes to the 91 freeway, the main traffic artery to the western metropolis.
Such famous golf resorts as Indian Wells, La Quinta, Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs and Palm Desert are located in Riverside County. Indio is the center of an important date growing region.
Riverside County was created in 1893 from parts of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties.
The county derives its name from the City of Riverside, christened when the upper canal of the Santa Ana River reached it in 1871.