City of Indio Indio amid the 1950s: Stan Sniff, a small-town date grower's booth at the annual National Date Festival and Riverside County Fair, selling dates which is one of the region's most prominent crops.
Indio amid the 1950s: Stan Sniff, a small-town date grower's booth at the annual National Date Festival and Riverside County Fair, selling dates which is one of the region's most prominent crops.
City of Indio is positioned in the US City of Indio - City of Indio Indio is a town/city in Riverside County, California, United States, positioned in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region.
The word Indio is Spanish for Indian.
Indio was once referred to as "the Hub of the Valley", which was the Chamber of Commerce slogan in the 1970s today the nickname is the "City of Festivals" because of cultural affairs held in the city, most prominently Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
5.3 Indio's old town historic mural program Trains were directed to Colton on July 16, 1875, and to Indio (then Indian Wells) on May 29, 1876.
Moving on eastward from Indio, the barns reached the west bank of the Colorado River opposite Yuma on May 23, 1877 (a village known as Arizona City before to 1873).
The City of Indio came about because of the need of a halfway point for the Southern Pacific Railroad between Yuma, Arizona and Los Angeles.
At first, the-would-be town/city was called Indian Wells,:292 but because of so many other areas already called that, Indio after a Spanish variation of the word "Indian" was chosen. After the barns 's arrival in 1876, Indio really started to grow.
While Indio started as a barns town, it soon became agricultural.
However, water also was a primary lured for Indio and the town/city was flooded a several times until the storm water canals were created throughout the Coachella Valley. Harry Smiley and his wife Nell were early inhabitants and stayed in Indio after their car broke down on the way to Los Angeles and became citizens of influence and helped shape the area.
Tingman was an early storeowner and first Postmaster of Indio, but also well known for taking favor of miners as they headed to the mountain peaks, selling at rather high prices.
June Robertson Mc - Carroll became a dominant philanthropist as well as prosperous doctor in Indio.
She was responsible along with the Indio Woman's Club for pressing California into adopting the placing of white lines down the streets after she nearly got hit one too many times by passing vehicles.
Indio established itself quickly and kept up with all the trends as they were brought in by the barns s. By the turn of the 20th century, Indio was already more than a fading barns town.
By 1920, about one to two thousand year round inhabitants lived in Indio, while it can double to 2,500 to 5,000 amid the winter months and was advertised as a community resort for senior people and those with respiratory diseases and ailments in the rest of the 20th century. Indio also served as the home of the USDA's Date Station, a place where dominant scientific research was taking place on the fruit that would turn into a primary part of the culture of Indio.
Coachella and Thermal were soon larger metros/cities than Indio, but Indio remained the "Hub of the Valley," as it was called.
With the burning of the majority of Thermal and the diminish of Coachella, Indio interval again.
By 1930 Indio was a grow region and incorporated.
Indio was also aided by the visiting soldiers from Patton's training grounds in Chiriaco Summit positioned 30 miles to the east. However, Indio saw another diminish as the valley's populace begin to move west towards newer metros/cities such as Palm Desert.
The town/city had momentous unemployment rates (in some cases over 20 percent) in the late 20th century and from the recession in the late 2000s. The rate in 2006 was under 5 percent after the small-town economy rebounded in the real estate boom when more well-to-do inhabitants moved in. The rapid populace growth fueled the city's present need for employment opportunities.
Indio is positioned at 33 43 12 N 116 13 55 W (33.719871, -116.231889). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 75.6 square kilometers (29 sq mi), 99.97% of which is territory and 0.03% is water.
About 3 miles (5 km) north and east of Indio is the San Andreas Fault, a primary tectonic plate boundary of the Pacific and North American plates.
Indio is home of Riverside County's easterly administration offices.
Palm Springs had more citizens from 1955 to 1992, when the US census announced Indio surpassed Palm Springs and that title was returned to them.
The official altitude of Indio is below sea level; the town/city hall is 14 feet (4 m) below sea level, as the Eastern half of the Coachella valley drops as low as 150 feet (50 m) below sea level (the lake shore of the Salton Sea is 15 miles (24 km) South of Indio).
Indio has a warm winter/hot summer climate (Koppen: BWh): Its average annual high temperature is 89.5 F (31.9 C) and average annual low is 62.1 F (16.7 C) but summer highs above 108 F (42 C) are common and sometimes exceed 120 F (49 C), while summer evening lows often stay above 82 F (28 C).
Climate data for Indio, California Indio is in the Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert.
Indio is an official National Bird Sanctuary, because of the cyclic bird migration flight routes that cross the town en route to the Salton Sea.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Indio had a populace of 76,036.
The ethnic makeup of Indio was 46,735 (61.5%) White (27.0% Non-Hispanic White), 1,805 (2.4%) African American, 741 (1.0%) Native American, 1,693 (2.2%) Asian, 55 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 22,394 (29.5%) from other competitions, and 2,613 (3.4%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 22,879 citizens (30.1%) under the age of 18, 7,247 citizens (9.5%) aged 18 to 24, 20,705 citizens (27.2%) aged 25 to 44, 15,793 citizens (20.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 9,412 citizens (12.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Indio had a median homehold income of $50,068, with 21.9% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Indio handles unprecedented expansion for being a select region of choice for thousands of new inhabitants per year: an estimated 25 new inhabitants are added per day.
City leaders and other locals are expanding town/city enhance services, including recreation activities, commercial retail centers and industrialized complexes.
The 2010 United States Enumeration recorded the city's populace to be about 76,000 residents, but doesn't estimate cyclic inhabitants (Indio may have 90-100,000 inhabitants by New Year's Day). The current populace estimate for Indio (as of 2016) is 91,000.
Indio has been one of Southern California's most meaningful agricultural regions, once responsible for a large percentage of the nation's date crop; however, with all the new residentiary and recreational development, the date groves are now more limited to the south and southeast of Indio.
Even the grove of date palm trees at the Riverside County Fair and nationwide Date Festival grounds have been torn out by the county. Travelers from around the world still can stop by Shields Date Gardens, a date grower that maintains a large retail store along State Highway 111 in Indio.
In recent years, Indio served as a magnet of job opportunities for immigrants, and newcomers from parts of California and athwart the nation.
In fact light trade is not a new thing in Indio.
Indio sought more corporate businesses and office professions, including fruit packing and shipping firms.
Locally based United States Filter Corporation, Guy Evans Inc., Dimare Fruit Co., West Coast Turf and Japanese-owned Sun World Inc.; and move-in companies such as Borden, Coca-Cola, Ernie Ball, Ernst and Young, Ferguson, Fulton Distributors, Guthy-Renker, Pulte Homes, Sunrise Company, Sun - Scape Tech and Tala Industries choose Indio for the locale of transport routes, low economical costs and expansion potential.
According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 4 City of Indio 308 Two Native American owned casinos in and near Indio are the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, owned by the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians and the Spotlight 29 Casino, owned by the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians. Because of the various celebrations and special affairs held annually in Indio, the Chamber of Commerce deemed Indio's official nickname to be: "The City of Festivals." Two primary annual celebrations are the National Date Festival and the Indio International Tamale Festival.
Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival is held each February at the Riverside County Fairgrounds, positioned on Highway 111 in the heart of Indio.
The Tamale Festival is held each December on the streets of Old Town Indio and holds one Guinness World Record as the biggest tamale festival (120,000 in attendance, Dec.
In 1993, Paul Tollett, president of Goldenvoice, booked a Pearl Jam concert at the Empire Polo Club in Indio and six years later the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was born. Since 2001, Coachella has been an annual event that has brought notable music acts to the desert, including: Prince, Paul Mc - Cartney, Kanye West, Radiohead, Dr.
Whatever shifts the Coachella festival makes, it continues to draw large amounts of concertgoers to Indio and the Empire Polo Club a venue that Rolling Stone said possessed a "lush beauty...
Indio is also the site of the annual Southwest Arts Festival, the Cabazon Indian National Pow Wow, the Palm Springs Kennel Club's Annual Dog Show and Rhythm, Wine and Brews Festival at the Empire Polo Club, Heritage Festival at the Coachella Valley History Museum and the Family Motor Coach Association's Annual Western Region RV Rally at the Fairgrounds.
The Coachella Valley History Museum on Miles Avenue in Indio, has a two-acre campus, which presently includes the Smiley-Tyler House, assembled in 1926, the 1909 Schoolhouse, and the Date Museum dedicated to the history and evolution of the fruit (the only date exhibition in the world), plus plant nurseries and archives preserving historical artefacts of the Coachella Valley.
Indio Hills Palms, state park property, are native California fan palms that thrive in many locations but rarely in such numbers as in the canyons of the Indio Hills.
The nearest palm groves are mostly easy to reach from the trailhead and parking region 4 miles (6 km) north of Indio.
In the fall of 1996 the Indio Chamber of Commerce formed a committee to precarious a Historic Mural Project to help revitalize the small-town economy at the time of the statewide economic recession.
It began with a suggestion to start a mural universal first brought to the town/city by David Hernandez, a former Indio town/city council member, after he visited Chemainus.
Route 99 (Indio Blvd.) to its former status as the Main Street of California.
Indio now has ten murals about the town/city on the sides of various buildings in old town or a water reservoir tank on Monroe Street.
In the California State Legislature, Indio is in the 28th Senate District, represented by Republican Jeff Stone, and in the 56th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Eduardo Garcia. In the United States House of Representatives, Indio is in California's 36th congressional district, represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz. According to the Riverside County voter registrar, a majority in Indio are affiliated with the Democratic party, while other portions of the Coachella Valley tend to partner with the Republican party. Indio is served by two enhance school districts: Desert Sands Unified and on the city's south easterly corner, Coachella Valley Unified.
Indio's six elementary and two middle schools are highly rated under the California Distinguished Schools program.
Because of Indio's burgeoning population and above-average number of young citizens with families, the two school districts are expanding, with plans on building more schools, along with remodeling the older ones with new buildings and designs.
Schools in or near Indio: MIDDLE/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS (grades 6-8): La Quinta Middle, Desert Ridge Academy; Thomas Jefferson; Indio Middle; John Glenn (Int'l studies) (California Distinguished School); and Horizon Middle (independent studies) in La Quinta.
HIGH SCHOOLS (grades 9-12): Indio High; La Quinta High in La Quinta; Shadow Hills; Amistad High, a continuation high school in former site of Woodrow Wilson Middle school; and Horizon High (independent studies) in La Quinta.
HIGH SCHOOLS (grades 9-12): Coachella Valley High and Desert Mirage High School, both in Thermal.
Grace Academy (K-8), Indio Christian Center (1-12), River Springs Charter School (K-12), Our Lady of Perpetual Help (PK-8), Trinity Lutheran Child Development Center (PK, K) and Christian School of the Desert (PK-12), positioned in close-by Bermuda Dunes.
Riverside County has a Regional Occupational Program facility in Indio that provides vocational educational courses in the Coachella valley's job market.
The California Desert Trial Academy School of Law was allowed by the California State Bar as an unaccredited fixed facility law school in Indio and is presently holding classes in the County Law Library in Indio while plans move forward on the school constructing its own ground buildings in downtown Indio. The Indio Date Palm was an early paper established in 1912 by John Winfield (J.
Three daily newspapers serve Indio, the Desert Sun, Riverside-based the Press-Enterprise and the Los Angeles Times are available in markets, coffee shops and book stores.
Indio is served by a several no-charge weekly publications, as well as The Sun Runner Magazine, based out of Joshua Tree, but covering the California desert region.
Indio has ten small-town tv stations serving the Coachella Valley, and six Spanish-language networks (local or county-wide affiliates like KUNA-LP and KVER-CA), some are over-air signals from Mexico.
Three out of 20 Palm Springs area's airways broadcasts are licensed to Indio: KESQ 1400 AM (in Spanish) owned by KESQ-TV/KDFX-CD, KKUU 92.7 FM (Urban/Hip-hop/R&B) owned by Morris Communications, KHCV 104.3, and classic modern KRHQ 102.3 FM owned by RM Broadcasting.
However, none of the stations have their offices or studios in Indio.
The town/city of Indio contracts for fire and paramedic services with the Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative agreement with CAL FIRE. Indio has 4 fire stations utilizing 4 engine companies, 3 paramedic ambulances and 1 truck company.
Bermuda Dunes Airport (FAA designator: UDD) is on the north-western border of Indio, along I-10 just west of Jefferson Street.
The Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Thermal just a several minutes from Indio is titled for the famous 1920s pilot and Indio resident and used for cargo planes to ship agricultural products, also on the four-lane California State Route 86 - S expressway or the "NAFTA highway" (in reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement) for global traffic.
The Greyhound and Amtrak passenger buses have a highly used bus depot in downtown Indio, where buses stop by regularly on the way to stops in Southern California, Arizona and the Mexican border.
The town/city is served by the small-town bus line Sun - Line Transit Agency ("Sun - Bus"), which services much of the Coachella Valley. Its substation is positioned on Highway 111 and Golf Center Drive, part of company route 10 that joins Indio and Coachella.
Kennedy Memorial Hospital is a General Acute Care Hospital in Indio with Basic Emergency Services as of 2006. One of three hospitals in the Coachella Valley, JFK hospital has one of the state's busiest maternity wards and in 2005, opened a new maternity center in part of hospital expansion plan for more surgical rooms, intensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport.
The Indio (renamed John F.
The town/city of Indio has 20 enhance parks (all directed by the City of Indio), a city-operated park near the municipal golf course, a improve recreation center, a new senior center positioned one block from the new teen center positioned athwart from Indio High school and a Desert Park wildlife refuge north of 40th and 42nd Avenues. City of Indio Park.
Downtown Indio Park (Grass lot).
Indio Teen Center and Park, athwart from Indio High School.
Cahuilla Park- formerly called Indio Terrace Park.
Bill Snyder football head coach of Kansas State University Wildcats; head coach at Indio High School in 1960s and 1970s Stan Van Gundy president of basketball operations and head coach of NBA's Detroit Pistons, born in Indio Ed White San Diego Chargers and Minnesota Vikings lineman; played for Indio High School; the school's football stadium was titled for him Indio has appeared in movies, tv and music.
Indio and encircling areas was in the 1980 Mexican movie Johnny Chicano about Mexican tourists meet up a small-town Mexican-American.
Huell Howser's state travel show California Gold stopped by "Old Town Indio" to report on the city's older dwellings had swamp coolers for permanent inhabitants to stay cool in the summer.
With Huell Howser came to the 1997 Indio International Tamale Festival (episode #529) where he spent time eating tamales and interviewing various vendors and visitors at the Festival.
Indio was a locale for film, The Beast with a Million Eyes, starring Dona Cole and Chester Conklin. An episode of the animated The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show titled The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam announces the upcoming second installment of the episode as Rimsky & Korsakov Go to Palm Springs, or Song of Indio.
Indio was mentioned 3 times on the Phil Hendrie Show radio comedy, once about the bus station, a car wash company and a grocery store that the host made jokes about his travels in the city.
ABC's Scoundrels is set in Indio and other Desert Cities' however, it is being filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Big 4 show at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio.
Comedian Peter Grosz mentioned Indio as the setting for his fictional story in the May 14, 2016 "Bluff the Listener" section of the game show Wait Wait...
"Indio" is the opening track on the 2012 album 'Coyote' by Matt Mays.
"Indio" was the name chosen by Canadian folk singer Gordon Peterson's surroundingal universal album, "Big Harvest" (1989), featuring the hit, (big) Hard Sun, which was also veiled by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
The name "Indio" came to Peterson in the California desert when he was driving to Mexico, and Indio was the last town he traveled through before crossing the border.
After the National Date Festival, a "Super - Fiesta del Sinaloa" follows to honor Indio's historic ties with the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a large origin of small-town immigration.
There are golf courses in Indio: such as the Plantation, Heritage Palms, Sun City Shadow Hills, Indian Springs and Indian Palms.
The Indio (municipal) Golf Club is the second longest par-3 executive course in the USA, it is the only evening lighted course in the Coachella Valley and is open until 10:00 PM.
In 2001, Forbes periodical designated part of the Valley that encompassed Indio west of Monroe Street (and close-by La Quinta, Bermuda Dunes and Indian Wells, all the way to Gene Autry Trail in Palm Springs) as one of America's wealthiest areas.
In 1999, Larry Fortensky, one of actress Elizabeth Taylor's husbands, was arrested for drug possession near Indio.
Indio had city-to-city economic exchange programs with San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico in the Sister Cities International (SCI) program.
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