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Canyon Lake
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city in Riverside County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Riverside
- Incorporated
- December 1, 1990
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Mark Terry
- Mayor pro tem
- Kasey Castillo
- City council
- Jeremy Smith , Josh Steeber , Dale Welty
- City manager
- Arron Brown
- Total
- 4.66 sq mi (12.07 km )
- Land
- 3.92 sq mi (10.15 km )
- Water
- 0.74 sq mi (1.92 km ) 15.92%
- Elevation
- 1,385 ft (422 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 11,161
- Density
- 2,827.8/sq mi (1,091.82/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 ( PDT )
- Fips code
- 06-10928
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Entry monument to the Canyon Lake gated community Canyon Lake Lodge
Canyon Lake is a city and gated community in Riverside County, California, United States, located on Canyon Lake reservoir. Canyon Lake began as a master-planned community developed by the Corona Land Company in 1968. The City of Canyon Lake was incorporated on December 1, 1990. As of the 2020 census, Canyon Lake had a population of 11,082. Railroad Canyon Dam was built in 1927, and impounds the San Jacinto River to fill the reservoir, which covers 383 acres (1.55 km) and has 14.9 miles (24.0 km) of shoreline.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canyon Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.