River Bend Lodge, California

River Bend Lodge is an unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, also known as Aha Quin. The community is near Hall Island along the Colorado River and hosts Riverside County Fire Department, Station 46. [US Geological Survey, Big Maria Mountains SE, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1975. Fire station number is from RCFD web site listed in External links below. The community name is not in the 1995 National Geographic Names Database.] River Bend Lodge is also inside the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District.

This community is part of the Colorado River Indian Reservation (USGS feature 22753). The reservation was established on March 3, 1865. [US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database, 1995.] Residents are primarily of Hualapai, Yavapai, Navajo, and Hopi affiliation. [Seen on a display at the Heard Museum, 2301 N Central Av., Phoenix, Arizona.] In some regulatory filings, tribal government used the name, "Colorado River Indian Tribes Utilities Services". [Seen on several regulatory filings submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission.]

The locale named Haakers Camp (feature ID: 243100) is about 0.5 miles, straight-line distance, south. The locale named Thompsons Camp (feature ID: 250454) is about 1.1 miles, straight-line distance, south. Both are located on the west shore of the Colorado River. Both are plotted at the edge of the reservation boundary. [US Geological Survey, Big Maria Mountains SE, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1975 and US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database, 1995. "Locale" means the USGS sees them as unpopulated as of 1995.]

The ZIP Code is 92225, and the community is inside area code 760.

Geography

At about 300 feet above mean sea level, River Bend Lodge is at latitude/longitude coor dms|33|51|43|N|114|31|39|W.

Transportation

U.S. Route 95 runs north-south through the area. [US Geological Survey, Big Maria Mountains SE, California, 7.5 minute quadrangle, 1975.]

Aha-Quin airport (FAA identifier: 1CA4) is described as a private airstrip located in the vicinity at coor dms|33|52|10|N|114|31|36|W. ["Airport Facility Directory, Southwest", US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, unknown year.] The USGS lists the air strip as feature ID 1653269. [US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database, 1995. It is not plotted on the 1975 Big Maria Mountain quadrangle.]

Communications

Area residences have U.S. Postal Service contract route box addresses along Highway Contract Route "HC 20" with a city name of Blythe and a ZIP Code of 92225. Wired telephone numbers work out of the Blythe exchange. This area is included inside Area code 760.

Notes

External links

[http://www.rvcfire.org/opencms/facilities/FireStations/EastDesertDiv/RiverBendStation46.html Riverside County Fire Department, Station 46.]