Riverside is on Texas State Highway 19, thirteen miles northeast of Huntsville in Walker County. It was founded by the Houston and Great Northern Railroad in 1872 on the west bank of the Trinity River. The community provided easy access for rail and river freight.

As the county seat of Riverside County and the most populous city in the Inland Empire, Riverside also houses several legal, accounting, engineering, and banking firms.

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Riverside, city, seat (1893) of Riverside county, southern California, U.S. The city lies on the Santa Ana River. With San Bernardino and Ontario it forms a metropolitan complex east of Los Angeles. The city was laid out in 1870 in part on a section of Rancho Jurupa, a Mexican land grant of 1838.

Sixty miles east of Los Angeles, Riverside is the largest city in the County, with more than 336,000 residents. Known for its citrus industry, an entire empire was built around the sweet and zesty navel orange.

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