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According to the United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it....
, Hell is a locale located in Riverside County
Riverside County, California

Riverside County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from Orange County, California to the Colorado River , which is the border with Arizona....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
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was founded by Charles Carr in 1954. Carr, with his wife and their ten-year-old son Terry were the only inhabitants as of 1958. He also served as the lone member of Hell's Chamber of Commerce.

On several occasions, Hell has been referenced when it is especially hot out. Columnist Art Ryon mentioned in his September 7, 1955 column in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
 that on September 1, it was 110 degrees in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, yet was only 105 degrees in Hell.






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According to the United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it....
, Hell is a locale located in Riverside County
Riverside County, California

Riverside County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from Orange County, California to the Colorado River , which is the border with Arizona....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA, at .

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Hell was founded by Charles Carr in 1954. Carr, with his wife and their ten-year-old son Terry were the only inhabitants as of 1958. He also served as the lone member of Hell's Chamber of Commerce.

On several occasions, Hell has been referenced when it is especially hot out. Columnist Art Ryon mentioned in his September 7, 1955 column in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States....
 that on September 1, it was 110 degrees in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, yet was only 105 degrees in Hell. On October 17, 1958, The Los Angeles Times published an article "LA's Hotter Than Hell--Only 97 There" when it reached 104 degrees the same day. According to a UPI news report, it also snowed in Hell at least once, causing many to remark that "it was a cold day in Hell".

There were once several roadside signs referencing Hell, including one near Indio, California
Indio, California

Indio is a city in Riverside County, California, California, United States, located in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's desert region....
 which read "100 miles of desert ahead - right through Hell."

Hell was abandoned in the late 1950's or early 1960's when it was isolated by the construction of US Highway 60 and 70. Its remains were demolished and burned by the California State Division of Highways in late 1964 to make way for what would eventually become Interstate 10
Interstate 10

Interstate 10 is the southernmost east-west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway in the United States. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at California State Route 1 in Santa Monica, California, California to Interstate 95 in Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, Florida....
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