13 Facts About Riverside County

Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the US state of California.

Riverside County is included in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Statistical Area, known as the Inland Empire.

Roughly rectangular, Riverside County covers 7,208 square miles in Southern California, spanning from the greater Los Angeles area to the Arizona border.

When Riverside County was formed in 1893 it was named for the city of Riverside, the county seat.

None of the proposals were adopted until a measure to create Riverside County was signed by Governor Henry H Markham on March 11,1893.

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Riverside County was officially formed on May 9,1893, when the Board of Commissioners filed the final canvass of the votes.

Riverside County's population surpassed one million people in 1990 when the current trend of high population growth as a major real estate destination began in the 1970s.

Once strictly a place for long-distance commuters to L A and later Orange County, the county and city of Riverside started becoming more of a place to establish new or relocated offices, corporations and finance centers in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Riverside County, California is roughly the size of the State of New Jersey in total area.

Riverside County is organized as a General Law County under the provision of the California Government Code.

In 1999, the County Board of Supervisors approved a multimillion-dollar planning effort to create the Riverside County Integrated Plan which was to encompass a completely new General Plan, regional transportation plan and Habitat Conservation Plan.

Riverside County Sheriff provides court protection, jail administration, and coroner services for all of Riverside County.

Riverside County has 12 federally recognized Indian reservations, which ties it with Sandoval County, New Mexico, for second most of any county in the United States.