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Ehrenberg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western La Paz County, Arizona, on the Colorado River.

Ehrenberg is named for Herman Ehrenberg, the German mining engineer hired in 1863 to survey a new townsite along the Colorado River about 6 miles from the river port of La Paz.

The townsite was first laid out as Mineral City, and it began to grow in 1866 after a steamboat landing was established there by the George A. Johnson Company.

Mineral City grew large enough to win its own post office on September 20, 1869, and the town was renamed Ehrenberg that same year.

By 1875 Ehrenberg had about 500 residents and had surpassed La Paz, drawing miners and storekeepers away from the older port.

When railroads bypassed Colorado River steamboat trade around the start of the 20th century, Ehrenberg declined, and it lost its post office on December 31, 1913.

Many of Ehrenberg's surviving older buildings were torn down in the 1950s to make way for a trailer park.

The population of Ehrenberg was 763 at the 2020 census, down sharply from 1,470 in 2010 and 1,357 in 2000.

At the 2000 census, Ehrenberg had 545 households.

Ehrenberg lies along Interstate 10 across the Colorado River from Riverside County, California, near the city of Blythe, at the southern end of the Parker Valley next to the Palo Verde Valley.