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California, United States
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Needles, city, San Bernardino county, southeastern California, U.S. Situated on the Colorado River (impounded [south] to form Lake Havasu), the city was founded in 1883 as a way station for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (now the Santa Fe) and was named for a group of isolated needlelike peaks just across the border in Arizona. The city experiences extremely high temperatures, often exceeding 100 °F (38 °C), and it is one of the hottest cities...

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