Riverside, California City of Riverside Flag of Riverside, California Flag Coat of arms of Riverside, California Location of Riverside County inside the State of California Location of Riverside County inside the State of California Riverside is positioned in the US Riverside - Riverside County Riverside Rank 1st in Riverside County Riverside is a town/city in Riverside County, California, United States, positioned in the Inland Empire urbane area.
Riverside is the governmental center of county of the eponymous county and titled for its locale beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most crowded city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is positioned about 60 miles (97 km) east of Los Angeles.
Riverside is the 59th most crowded city in the United States and 12th most crowded city in California.
As of the 2010 Census, Riverside had a populace of 303,871.
It is the place of birth of the California citrus trade and home of the Mission Inn, the biggest Mission Revival Style building in the United States. It is also home to the Riverside National Cemetery.
The University of California, Riverside, is positioned in the northeastern part of the city.
The college also hosts the Riverside Sports Complex.
Other attractions in Riverside include the Fox Performing Arts Center, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, which homes exhibits and artifacts of small-town history, the California Museum of Photography, the California Citrus State Historic Park, and the Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree, the last of the two initial navel orange trees in California. Main article: History of Riverside, California As a result, the first golf course and polo field in Southern California were assembled in Riverside.
The first orange trees were planted in 1871, but the citrus trade Riverside is famous for beginning three years later (1874) when Eliza Tibbetts received three Brazilian navel orange trees sent to her by a personal friend, William Saunders who was a horticulturist at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.
Within a several years, the prosperous cultivation of many thousands of the newly identified Brazilian navel orange led to a California Gold Rush of a different kind: the establishment of the citrus industry, which is memorialized in the landscapes and exhibits of the California Citrus State Historic Park and the restored packing homes in the downtown's Marketplace district.
By 1882, there were more than half a million citrus trees in California, almost half of which were in Riverside.
The evolution of refrigerated barns cars and innovative irrigation systems established Riverside as the richest town/city in the United States (in terms of income per capita) by 1895. (Although Spanish missionaries came as far inland as San Bernardino (San Bernardino de Sena Estancia), east of Riverside, there was no actual Spanish mission in what is now Riverside.) Postcards of lush orange groves, swimming pools and magnificent homes have thriving vacationers and company doers throughout the years.
Riverside is the 59th biggest city in the United States, 12th biggest city in California, and the biggest city in California's Inland Empire metro area.
A panorama of Riverside, California, taken from the summit of Mount Rubidoux, 1908.
See also: List of tallest buildings in Riverside, California A 360 degree panorama of Riverside, California, taken from the summit of Mount Rubidoux Main article: List of landmarks in Riverside, California Riverside is home to the historic Mission Inn, the Beaux-Arts style Riverside County Historic Courthouse (based on the Petit Palais in Paris, France), and the Riverside Fox Theater, where the first showing of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind took place.
The theater was purchased by the town/city and refurbished as part of the Riverside Renaissance Initiative. The Fox Theater underwent extensive renovation and restoration, which was instead of in 2009, to turn the old cinema into a performing arts theater. The building was period to hold 1,600 seats and the stage was enlarged to accommodate Broadway-style performances.
Riverside is also the home of the "World's Largest Paper Cup" (actually made of concrete), which is over three stories (68.10 ft) tall.
This foothill is the dividing line between the town of Rubidoux and the town/city of Riverside.
March Joint Air Reserve Base borders Riverside on the east serving as a divider between the town/city and Moreno Valley.
At the entrance to Riverside from the 60 freeway sits Fairmount Park.
Homes in Riverside.
The town/city of Riverside has 28 designated "neighborhoods" inside the town/city limits. These neighborhoods include Airport, Alessandro Heights, Arlanza, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Arlington South, Canyon Crest, Casa Blanca, Downtown, Eastside, Grand, Hawarden Hills, Hillside Hunter Industrial Park, La Sierra, La Sierra Acres, La Sierra Hills, La Sierra South, Magnolia Center, Mission Grove, Northside, Orangecrest, Presidential Park, Ramona, Sycamore Canyon Park, Sycamore Canyon Springs, University, Victoria and Wood Streets.
Riverside is home to the University of California, Riverside.
The town/city prides itself on its historic connection to the navel orange, which was introduced to North America from Brazil by the first pioneer to Riverside in 1873.
Riverside is home to the one surviving Parent Navel Orange Tree, from which all American West Coast navel orange trees are descended.
Riverside Community Hospital is a General Acute Care Hospital with Basic Emergency Services and a Level II Trauma Center as of 2006.
Riverside is also home to the Riverside Public Library system.
The Riverside Convention Center, remodeled in 2014, offers 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2) indoors and 14,000 sq ft (1,300 m2) outside space.
Also available is the Riverside Marriott with 14,000 sq ft (1,300 m2) indoors, and the Mission Inn with 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2) indoors and 5,000 sq ft (460 m2) outdoors. All three facilities are positioned inside walking distance of each other in downtown Riverside.
Meetings with an academic focus are also held at the University of California, Riverside.
Cemeteries in Riverside include: January, the coldest month, averages a high / low temperature of 68 F / 43 F (20 C / 6 C), while August, the hottest month, averages a high / low temperature of 95 F / 64 F (35 C / 18 C). Riverside receives 10.4 inches of rain annually with most of it occurring in the winter and early spring, especially January through March, with February the wettest month.
The Riverside region is referred to as a "smog belt" because of its above-average level of air pollution.
Smog decreased considerably over the next several years as small-town municipalities and counties worked with the South Coast Air Quality Management District to implement measures to advancement county-wide air character. The smoke and fog alerts that citizens remember from decades ago are history. Most of Riverside's smoke and fog enigma are the result of the prevailing wind patterns that blow the smoke and fog from the Los Angeles Basin and particulates generated by Southern California's multitude of vehicles, and the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach into the Inland Empire.
As of the 2010 census reported that Riverside had a populace of 303,871.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 148,953 persons (49.0%); 41.8% of Riverside's populace is Mexican, 1.1% Guatemalan, 1.0% Salvadoran, 0.7% Puerto Rican, 0.3% Cuban, 0.2% Nicaraguan, and 0.2% Colombian. Non-Hispanic Whites were 34.0% of the populace in 2010, down from 82.1% in 1970. According to the 2010 United States Census, Riverside had a median homehold income of $56,403, with 17.5% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. As the governmental center of county and biggest city in the region, Riverside also homes many legal, accounting, brokerage, architectural, engineering, technology, and banking firms.
1 County of Riverside 11,187 2 Riverside Unified School District 5,580 3 University of California, Riverside 5,497 5 City of Riverside 2,687 6 Riverside Community College District 2,087 7 Riverside Community Hospital 1,880 8 Riverside County Office of Education 1,765 See also: List of films shot in Riverside, California Episodes of the 2013 tv celebrity diving program Splash are taped at Riverside Community College's aquatics complex, and a small-town gay bar titled V.I.P.
The HBO show Enlightened (2011 2013), which starred Laura Dern, was also set in Riverside.
Retail shopping centers include the open-air Riverside Plaza, the Galleria at Tyler county-wide mall, while Main Street downtown, is the site of a pedestrian mall with unique shops. See also: List of exhibitions in Riverside, California Entomology Research Museum at the University of California, Riverside (not open to the public).
Riverside Art Museum Riverside Metropolitan Museum Southern California Medical Museum, homed at the Riverside County Medical Association Sweeney Art Gallery, an extension of the University of California, Riverside University of California, Riverside California Museum of Photography Several celebrations occur throughout the year in Riverside, many concentrated on the downtown area.
Each year in February The Riverside Dickens Festival is held to "enhance a sense of improve among people of Riverside County and Southern California by creating a series of literary affairs and to furnish educational, family-oriented, literary entertainment and activities such as plays, musical performances, pageants, living history presentations, workshops, lectures, classroom study, exhibits and a street bazaar with no-charge entertainment, vendors and costumed characters." The Riverside Airshow takes place in March at the Riverside Municipal Airport.
The air show is among the biggest affairs in the Inland Empire and Riverside County.
The Legends of Riverside Film Festival and charity fund raiser is held in March each year at the Riverside International Automotive Museum.
The Riverside International Film Festival (RIFF) takes place in April and features films from around the world. Sponsored by the town/city of Riverside, small-town universities, and many businesses, past celebrations have featured over 175 films.
In October, the California Riverside Ballet sponsors the Ghost Walk, which in 2013 jubilated its 22nd year.
Also, in October, for one evening, from late afternoon until midnight, the Long Night of Arts & Innovation is held in Downtown Riverside.
This signature event of the town/city of Riverside is designed to showcase its best talent in the visual and performing arts, science and technology from its universities, improve college, school districts, and most innovative companies and arts organizations.
The Riverside Festival of Lights centers around the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, positioned downtown.
Also amid the week of Thanksgiving, the Festival of Trees is held at the Riverside Convention Center.
Held since 1990, the event seeks to raise cash for the Riverside County Regional Medical Center children's units including the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Child Abuse and Neglect Unit, and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
The Riverside Robot Expo is held in November each year, sponsored by the Riverside Robotics Society in alignment of its goal "to bring robotics to the Inland Empire." Other affairs in Riverside include a LGBT Pride event, which was first held at White Park on September 13, 2008, and on the first Thursdays of each month the Riverside Art Walk, with small-town vendors selling handmade arts and crafts.
Riverside is largely Christian and home to Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, and an Islamic mosque, Mormon churches, Jewish Jewish church, Hindu temple, a several Buddhist temples, and a Universalist Unitarian church.
Riverside is also home to the Inland Empire Atheists and Agnostics organization. Due to constitutional issues regarding separation of church and state, the Riverside City Council sold the cross and the territory under it (0.43 acre) to a private entity for $10,500. See also: List of mayors of Riverside, California Riverside is governed by a town/city council and mayor.
In Riverside's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, the city's government accounts were reported to have $244 million in revenues and $365 million in expenditures, with the deficiency made up by the issuance of long-term debt and transfers from the city-owned utilities (including electric and water). The report also indicates that over the past 9 years, the number of town/city employees increased by 23.6% to 2686 FTE, outpacing the 12.5% increase in the number of residents.
Under the electoral maps drawn by the Citizens' Redistricting Commission, which were first used in the 2012 elections and will remain in effect through at least 2020, Riverside's state and federal legislative districts have changed substantially.
In the California State Senate, the town/city is in the 31st Senate District, represented by Democrat Richard Roth.
In the United States House of Representatives, Riverside is in California's 41st congressional district, represented by Democrat Mark Takano. To help reduce gang-related crime, the town/city developed Project Bridge, an anti-gang program under the town/city of Riverside's Park and Recreation Department.
The 161-foot, 48-bell, carillon fortress at the University of California, Riverside.
Riverside is home to a several establishments of higher learning: Riverside City College Riverside is served by two school districts: Riverside Unified School District serves easterly Riverside.
Riverside Polytechnic High School also known as Poly High School Riverside Virtual School Riverside STEM High School Alvord Unified School District serves Riverside.
Two notable establishments of learning, for specified student bodies, are also positioned in Riverside: California School for the Deaf, Riverside (CSD-R) for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing from Preschool to 12th undertaking has been open since 1952. The CSD-R varsity football team, the Riverside Cubs, had an undefeated season which led to an appearance on a May 2006 segment on ABC's 20/20 news series. Riverside Christian High School As a result, the Completion Counts initiative was created as a joint partnership by the town/city of Riverside, Riverside City College, Alvord Unified School District, Riverside Unified School District, Riverside County Office of Education, UC Riverside, and the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce to double college graduation rates by 2020.
Only Riverside, New York City, San Francisco, and Mesa, Arizona received such grant.
Riverside is served by three primary freeways, the I-215, the State Route 60, and the State Route 91.
See also: Riverside (Amtrak station) and Riverside-La Sierra (Metrolink station) Southern Pacific Railroad train running through the tracks in an orange grove in Riverside, California, ca.
Both are served by the Inland Empire-Orange County and 91 Lines, and the Downtown station is served by the Riverside Line on weekdays, and the San Bernardino Line on weekends.
Local bus service is provided by the Riverside Transit Agency. Recently, the agency proposed a new bus rapid transit route to travel along the current Route 1 from the University of California, Riverside to Corona.
The Riverside Municipal Airport (FAA designator: RAL) with a 5,400-foot (1,600 m) runway, is the only airport inside Riverside's town/city limits, and is the locale for the annual Riverside Air Show.
The nearest primary airport is the Ontario International Airport in the town/city of Ontario, California (FAA designator: ONT), about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Riverside.
Main article: List of citizens from Riverside, California See also: List of University of California, Riverside citizens Riverside, California's sister town/city sign in front of White Park in downtown Riverside.
Sister metros/cities of Riverside, California Riverside has nine sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: The town/city of Riverside established an economic partnership program with the state of Oaxaca, Mexico in the early 2000s (decade).
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