Palm Desert, California City of Palm Desert Official logo of City of Palm Desert Location of Palm Desert, California Location of Palm Desert, California City of Palm Desert is positioned in the US City of Palm Desert - City of Palm Desert Palm Desert is a town/city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley, approximately 14 miles (23 km) east of Palm Springs and 122 miles (196 km) east of Los Angeles.
A primary center of expansion in the Coachella Valley, Palm Desert is a prominent retreat for "snowbirds" from colder climates (the Eastern and Northern United States, and Canada), who swell its populace by an estimated 31,000 each winter.
In the past couple of years Palm Desert has seen more inhabitants turn into "full-timers", mainly from the coasts and urban centers of California, who have come for both affordable and high-valued home prices.
The region was first known as the Old Mac - Donald Ranch, but the name changed to Palm Village in the 1920s when date palms were planted.
Local historians said the chief residents of pre-1950 Palm Desert were Cahuilla Indian farmers of the now extinct San Cayetano tribe, but a several members of the Montoya family of Cahuilla/Spanish descent were prominent leaders in civic life. In 1948, the Palm Desert Corporation began to precarious real estate, and in 1951 the region was given its present name.
Many celebrities keep homes in Palm Desert, including Rita Rudner and more recently, the current home of experienced golfer Michelle Wie and one of the homes of Bill Gates.
Film producer Jerry Weintraub called Palm Desert his second home before he died.
At the time, Palm Desert was a master prepared improve situated in the desert that used to stretch from Palm Springs to Indio.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 27.0 square miles (70 km2), of which, 26.8 square miles (69 km2) of it is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (0.76%) is water.
Palm Desert is positioned in the Coachella Valley, the north-western extension of the Sonoran Desert.
Sun City Palm Desert, California lies on the northern side of Interstate 10 from Palm Desert itself, but is unincorporated and not part of the City of Palm Desert (the initial name was Sun City Palm Springs from 1991 to 1996).
Palm Desert has an dry climate: Its average annual high temperature is 89 F (32 C) and average annual low is 62 F (17 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).
The mean annual temperature at 75.8 F (24.3 C) makes Palm Desert one of the warmest places in the United States.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in Palm Desert was 125 F (52 C) on July 6, 1905. The encircling mountain peaks problematic a thermal belt in the southern foothills of Palm Desert, dominant to a unique micro-climate with decidedly warmer evening-time temperatures amid the winter months.
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Climate data for Palm Desert, California Boyd Deep Canyon Ctr (1981 2010) The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Palm Desert had a populace of 48,445.
The ethnic makeup of Palm Desert was 39,957 (82.5%) White (70.4% Non-Hispanic White), 875 (1.8%) African American, 249 (0.5%) Native American, 1,647 (3.4%) Asian, 55 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 4,427 (9.1%) from other competitions, and 1,235 (2.5%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 7,534 citizens (15.6%) under the age of 18, 3,333 citizens (6.9%) aged 18 to 24, 8,731 citizens (18.0%) aged 25 to 44, 12,924 citizens (26.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 15,923 citizens (32.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Palm Desert had a median homehold income of $53,456, with 9.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. According to the 2000 United States Enumeration of 2000, there were 41,155 citizens , 19,184 homeholds, and 11,414 families residing in the city.
There are 19,184 homeholds in Palm Desert, out of which 18.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.5% were non-families.
The demographics of Palm Desert shows a rising populace of kids and young grownups.
Palm Desert is considered an upper-class community, having an above average median income compared both to California and the nation.
1 JW Marriott Desert Springs Golf Resort Marriott Desert Springs Villas 2,304 Rapid expansion and a several annexations in the 1980s and 1990s have made Palm Desert a primary shopping destination and the chief center of company activeness in the Coachella Valley. The town/city has evolved as a primary shopping destination following the evolution of Westfield Palm Desert which opened in 1983.
This evolution was followed by One Eleven Town Center, Town Center Plaza and Desert Crossing which encompassed Target and other nationwide anchors.
El Paseo Drive is downtown Palm Desert's chief shopping street.
El Paseo is often compared to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive due its concentration of posh retail outlets and lush landscaping. The street runs alongside to State Route 111, which serves as the chief thoroughfare stretching from Palm Springs to Indio.
Palm Desert inhabitants have shown concern in protecting the desert surrounding by promoting natural landscaping and creative sculptures. Fred Waring Drive has been period into a six-lane primary traffic fare, encouraging new retail centers and commercial zones.
The town/city is home to the Palm Desert Scene, a unique musical genre that has been heavily influential internationally since the early 1990s.
Many of the Palm Desert bands are credited for starting the rock/metal subgenre known as stoner rock.
Over half of the Palm Desert's burgeoning population is over 50 years old.
The town/city had a doubling of persons over age 55 in the 2000s, to reverse a previous trend of a "younger" populace of all ages and once again, Palm Desert has a "gray" majority. Sociopolitically, Palm Desert historically leaned conservatively towards the Republican party, although as of late many inhabitants are registered Democrat.
The global appeal of Palm Desert as the "place to be" for tourists has made it home to thousands of retired citizens from around the world.
Palm Desert is a multi-ethnic improve with well-to-do African-Americans, Latin Americans and Asian Americans.
The biggest international ethnic group in Palm Desert are Mexicans.
In 2001 Huell Howser Productions, in association with KCET/Los Angeles, featured Palm Desert in California's Gold; the 28 minute program is available as a VHS videorecording. Golf Palm Desert is home to about 30 golf courses.
The city's first golf course and tennis club was Shadow Mountain in 1952, followed by Marrakesh in 1954, the Palm Desert Greens mobile home park golf course in 1961, and the Palm Desert Country Club in 1962.
The total number of golf clubs (more than 30 positioned inside 10 miles from the city) have made Palm Desert known as the "World's Golf Capital." Desert Willow Golf Resor" is the City Of Palm Desert's municipal golf course, and has two championship courses: Mountain View and Firecliff.
It is associated with the Westin Desert Willow Resort at the golf course location.
In the late-1970s and 1980s, a spate of private golf clubs, destination resorts and hotels appeared in the northern half of Palm Desert, such as the four-star JW Marriott Desert Springs Golf Resort and Spa in 1987 and the four-star Desert Willow Golf Resort in 2002.
Palm Desert was incorporated as a town/city in 1973 and designated a charter town/city in 1997. It operates on a council-manager form of government. Residents of Palm Desert elect five non-partisan council members who serve four-year staggered terms, with elections occurring every two years.
In the California State Legislature, Palm Desert 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, Palm Desert is in California's 36th congressional district, represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department has one of its stations positioned in Palm Desert.
That station provides police services to the municipalities of Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, and Indian Wells.
The town/city of Palm Desert contracts for fire and paramedic services with the Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative agreement with CAL FIRE. Palm Desert presently has three fire stations, which are Station 33, (Town Center), Station 67 (Mesa View), and Station 71 (North Palm Desert).
Palm Desert is the home of the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, a combination zoo and botanical garden featuring an extensive compilation of desert plants and animals and a state-of-the-art animal hospital.
Palm Desert is also the site of the chief campus of College of the Desert, the small-town improve college, which has period greatly in size since the ground opened in 1961 and one of the buildings was assembled by donations from the small-town Cahuilla Indian tribal nations.
The state college studies fitness opened an extension ground duplex (the Indian Wells Education center for both California State University, San Bernardino and the University of California Riverside.
The major high school is Palm Desert High School (with 2200 students) which is part of the Desert Sands Unified School District.
The chief Middle School (with 1100 students) is Palm Desert Middle School, a charter school.
The northernmost part of Palm Desert is served by the Palm Springs Unified School District, so the students can attend Rancho Mirage High School in Rancho Mirage, or Nellie Coffman Middle School and Cathedral City High School in Cathedral City, California.
Palm Desert has 8 private schools in the immediate region : Desert Adventist Academy, Palm Desert Presbyterian School, Sacred Heart Catholic Academy, The Palm Valley School, the Learning Tree Academy, Xavier College Preparatory High School (Catholic-Jesuit), the Hope Academy, and the Desert Torah Academy, a Jewish improve school and its civil recreational Jewish Community Center.
It also has meetings by the United Jewish Congress of the Desert based in Palm Springs.
Electricity in Palm Desert is served by Southern California Edison.
Palm Springs International Airport serves Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley.
SR 74 The Pines to Palms Scenic Byway (California State Route 74) runs from the coast, over the San Jacinto Mountains and has its easterly end at Highway 111 in Palm Desert before closing northbound as Monterey Avenue.
Palm Desert has 14 town/city parks. Palm Desert Dog Park South of Palm Desert is the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument and North of Palm Desert is the Coachella Valley Fringe-Toed Lizard Reserve.
The Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City is maintained by the Palm Springs Cemetery District. Also in Cathedral City is the Forest Lawn Cemetery, maintained by Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries.
Palm Desert Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center, a unit of the University of California Natural Reserve System Living Desert Zoo and Gardens Palm Desert had been in the sister metros/cities program, as designated by Sister Cities International.
Six to nine metros/cities that are or were associated with Palm Desert: Palm Desert has a improve exchange program with Art of Food & Wine Palm Desert List of citizens from Palm Springs, California, which includes notable citizens from Palm Desert a b "Palm Desert".
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