The Blythe Intake is the place of the first irrigation canal to feed water to the Palo Verde Valley in 1877.

[1] In the early or mid-1870s, William Calloway (known as Oliver Calloway in some sources), an engineer and a former captain of the 1st California Infantry Regiment, explored an area across the Colorado River from Ehrenberg, Arizona and found its potential for development.

[2][3][4][5] Blythe appointed another man named George Irish as manager to assist Calloway in building an irrigation system.

[7][8][9][10] The Blythe Intake feed water to the Palo Verde Valley which is located in the Lower Colorado River Valley, next to the eastern border of Southern California with Arizona, United States.

A California Historical Landmark is located is on U.S. Route 95 at milepost 10.5, on the right when traveling north.