La Quinta, California "La Quinta"
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Location of La Quinta in the U.S.
La Quinta, California is positioned in the US La Quinta, California - La Quinta, California La Quinta is a resort town/city in Riverside County, California, United States, specifically in the Coachella Valley between Indian Wells and Indio.
The Robb Report credits La Quinta as the dominant golf destination in the US.
Among those destinations is the La Quinta Resort and Club, a resort dating to 1926, where director Frank Capra wrote the screenplay for Lost Horizon.
The Tom Fazio-designed golf course at The Quarry at La Quinta is ranked among the top 100 golf courses in the United States. In January 2008, the Arnold Palmer Classic Course at the city's Silver - Rock Golf Resort became one of the four host golf courses for the annual Bob Hope Chrysler Classic PGA golf tournament. In the late-19th century and early-20th century (1880 1920), agriculture advanced in present-day La Quinta and "East Valley" by pre-modern (mountain water runoff or open water springs) and undivided irrigation techniques.
In 1926, Walter Morgan established the La Quinta Resort at the northern section of Marshall Cove as a type of secluded hideaway for close-by Hollywood's celebrities and socialites.
Further expansion of Washington Street in the 1950s and 1960s connected La Quinta with US Highways 60 and 99 (became Interstate 10 in the 1970s). As close-by desert metros/cities interval to capacity, La Quinta's expansion rose dramatically by the mid-1980s, which led to its incorporation as a town/city in Riverside County in 1982. In the 1980 census, La Quinta had 4,200 residents, then increased to 11,215 by 1990 in the city's early phases of residentiary region growth.
Once dominantly a part-time improve until the early-1990s, more full-time inhabitants live in La Quinta to make it possibly more crowded than Palm Springs by 2006, as stated to some demographers. La Quinta is positioned at 33 40 31 N 116 17 51 W (33.675373, 116.297391). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.6 square miles (92 km2), of which, 35.1 square miles (91 km2) of it is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) of it (1.22%) is water.
The most prominent feature of the La Quinta region is its Santa Rosa Mountains.
Visitors to Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California and EPCOT at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida are treated to a brief glimpse of the foothills in one of the park's attractions: Soarin' Over California.
The "Palm Springs" segment of Soarin' Over California was actually shot at the world-famous PGA West golf complex in La Quinta.
La Quinta has a warm winter/hot summer climate: 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 La Quinta, California The estimated 2012 populace is 38,075, similar to Palm Springs. La Quinta interval at a higher rate than most other metros/cities in California amid the 1990s and 2000s.
La Quinta is in the Coachella Valley and is mostly close to all primary cities in that valley, including: City Population (2000 census) Population (2010 census) La Quinta 23,694 37,467 The most prominent trade is golfing with more than twenty golf courses, including the world-famous PGA West, which has hosted prestigious tournaments such as The Skins Game, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, The Grand Slam of Golf, The Legends of Golf, as well as the PGA Tour Qualifying School. La Quinta has increased the number of retail shopping centers, both discount and high-end retailers brought millions of revenue dollars to the city, and the town/city council hopes for La Quinta to share a reputation for shoppers like Palm Desert (El Paseo) and Palm Springs (the Village and Palm Canyon) by the end of the decade.
In addition to standard service industries, La Quinta is the site of the first Wal-Mart Supercenter in California.
La Quinta has sought to bring in high-paying experienced businesses to the town/city and has benefited from neighboring cities' expansion (Indio, Palm Desert and Palm Springs). The city's downtown commercial precinct is officially known as "The Village." The Village District includes private commercial developments such as "Old Town" and "Plaza Calle Tampico," and contains many experienced offices, the City exhibition, small tourist-oriented shops and boutiques, and a several restaurants. According to La Quinta's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city were: 1 La Quinta Resort and Club 1,500 As of January 1, 2012, the California Department of Finance Demographic Research Unit estimates the City of La Quinta's populace to be 38,075. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that La Quinta had a populace of 37,467.
The ethnic makeup of La Quinta was 29,489 (78.7%) White (63.1% Non-Hispanic White), 713 (1.9%) African American, 230 (0.6%) Native American, 1,176 (3.1%) Asian, 41 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 4,595 (12.3%) from other competitions, and 1,223 (3.3%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 37,410 citizens (99.8% of the population) lived in homeholds, 50 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 7 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 14,820 homeholds, out of which 4,329 (29.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 8,672 (58.5%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,442 (9.7%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 595 (4.0%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 8,208 citizens (21.9%) under the age of 18, 2,509 citizens (6.7%) aged 18 to 24, 7,696 citizens (20.5%) aged 25 to 44, 11,238 citizens (30.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,816 citizens (20.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
27,386 citizens (73.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 10,024 citizens (26.8%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 United States Census, La Quinta had a median homehold income of $72,099, with 8.0% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. The average homehold size was 2.8 and the average family size was 3.2, above nationwide average of 2.4 as stated to the 2000 United States Census.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
La Quinta has advanced a culturally diverse community, as large lineage groups include Mexicans (the largest) and Mexican Americans who incessantly came to the Palm Springs area/Coachella Valley to find available employment in the 1990s and 2000s.
Temporary populace known as snowbirds from Coastal California urban areas, the Pacific Northwest and/or Canada increase the small-town populace by 50 90% in the winter months from November to April.
According to the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, estimates placed Latinos at half (about 50% to 60%) of the small-town population, Blacks at near or over 10% and Asians at 10 15% of the town/city population as of the year 2010.
In the California State Legislature, La Quinta is in the 28th Senate District, represented by Republican Jeff Stone, and in the 42nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Chad Mayes. In the United States House of Representatives, La Quinta is in California's 36th congressional district, represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz. The town/city of La Quinta contracts for fire and paramedic services with the Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative agreement with CAL FIRE. American Medical Response provides ambulance services to La Quinta.
The Desert Sands Unified School District services the entire town/city of La Quinta, and maintains the following enhance schools: La Quinta Middle School, opened in 1987, a charter school.
Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle School on the town/city limits with Palm Desert.
La Quinta High School, an IB World School Summit High School, a continuation high school opened in 2006, next to Mitchell Paige Middle School.
Horizon High School and Horizon Middle School positioned next to the Desert Sands Unified School District administration building.
The town/city of La Quinta has 20 Parks. Fritz Burns-La Quinta Community Pool Park La Quinta Baseball Fields Park and Gerald Ford Boys and Girls Club Center La Quinta Civic Center Park La Quinta Trails (hiking and bike trails) La Quinta-Westward Ho Park Lake Cahuilla Regional Park is a Riverside county park, and the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is under the US Department of the Interior / National Park Service. Griffin was the driving force behind the annual La Quinta Arts Festival, one of the country's dominant plein air art shows, and was instrumental in the evolution of Griffin Ranch, La Quinta's first equestrian-oriented resort residentiary neighborhood. All three restaurants are positioned in the La Quinta Village. Additionally, the musician/actor Tyler Hilton, experienced golfer Anthony Kim, and singer/dancer Aubrey O'Day of Danity Kane were also former inhabitants of La Quinta, and all three attended La Quinta High School. La Quinta is said to be the hometown of actress Vanessa Marcil, but her official web site states Indio is her place of birth and she attended Indio High School.
Colonel Mitchell Paige is a World War II Medal of Honor veteran who resided in close-by Palm Desert and had a middle school in La Quinta titled for him.
NFL Football player Jeff Webb of the Kansas City Chiefs went to La Quinta High School, though he lived in Indio.
Current NFL player James Dockery interval up in neighboring Palm Desert and attended Palm Desert High School. Olympic ice figure skater Dorothy Hamill lived in La Quinta.
Ron Hubbard lived in secret in a ranch in La Quinta for a several years from 1978 to the early 1980s. Singer Jack Jones now lives in La Quinta.
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