Ripley, California

Riverside County

Ripley is a census -designated place in eastern Riverside County in the U.S. state of California. The village has 692 inhabitants (as of 2010). It is located on the California State Route 78 between Palo Verde and Blythe. The area is used primarily for agriculture, irrigation via the Colorado River.

Geography

Ripley is located in the extreme southeast of Riverside County in California. The settlement is part of the Palo Verde Valley, just south of the larger town of Blythe, close to the Colorado River and the border with Arizona.

With 692 inhabitants (as of 2010 census ) and an area of ​​approximately 4.4 square kilometers, composed entirely of the country, the population density is 157.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. The center is located at an altitude of 76 meters.

The irrigated agriculture has a high priority for the village.

History

The village was founded in the course of construction of a railway line, which was created by Blythe from. It was named after the former president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Edward Payson Ripley. The original plans, the tracks for a hundred kilometers to the southwest of the main line of the Southern Pacific Transportation extend, were later discarded. The settlement should then be transformed into a resort, but the valley was flooded a few years later and the settlements largely destroyed. Today there is an old water tower as a historic relic in Ripley.

In the middle of the Palo Verde Valley area, Ripley was until the early 1930s, the village in the valley, which developed the most successful. The construction of U.S. Highways 60 and 70 by the neighboring Blythe brought the demise of Ripley with it. From the 1960s there was only one in Ripley, which simultaneously supplied as a department store and grocery store, farmers in southern Palo Verde Valley. This store was robbed in the 1980s and set on fire, and since then no longer re-established.

Policy

Ripley is part of the 28th district in the Senate of California, which is currently represented by Democrat Ted Lieu W.. In the California State Assembly, the place is assigned to the 56th District and is thus represented by Democrat V. Manuel Pérez. At the federal level belongs to Ripley California's 36th congressional district, which a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R 1 and is represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz.