East Blythe, California

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For the city, see Blythe, California.

East Blythe is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. The 2000 census population was three. According to the United States Census Bureau, it is one of only nine places or townships in the United States with a population of three people. The others are North Red River Township, Minnesota, Rulien Township, Minnesota, Hush Lake, Minnesota, Pfeiffer Lake, Minnesota, Livermore, New Hampshire, Hillsview, South Dakota, Point of Rocks, Wyoming, and Hobart Bay, Alaska.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²), all land.

While residents of Blythe still make the distinction between East Blythe and Blythe, the larger City of Blythe annexed the smaller community of East Blythe in the early 1990s when Blythe grew from 5 square miles to 26.8 square miles in size. The new city limits of Blythe extend from Arizona border at the center of the Colorado River, approximately 20-miles west of town along Interstate 10 to Ironwood and Chuckawalla State Prison. In the 1990s, as the prisons were being built, the City of Blythe performed a "strip annexation", including in the City's limits a one-foot wide stip of land all the way to the State Prisons. The purpose of the annexation was to boost the city's income. The city's actual population figures are skewed by this fact, as the prisons house over 10,000 people that are counted as City of Blythe residents by the Census Bureau.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were three people, two households, and one family residing in the CDP. The population density was 2.3/km² (5.8/mi²). There were two housing units at an average density of 1.5/km² (3.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 100.00% White.

The two households consisted of a married couple living together (one forty-six and one twenty-five to forty-four) and a woman living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 1.5 and the average family size was two.