Yucca Valley, California Town of Yucca Valley Snow in Yucca Valley, near Joshua Tree National Park Snow in Yucca Valley, near Joshua Tree National Park Town of Yucca Valley, CA seal Town of Yucca Valley is positioned in the US Town of Yucca Valley - Town of Yucca Valley Yucca Valley's West End Yucca Valley is an incorporated town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Yucca Valley lies 17 miles (27 km) west of Twentynine Palms, 37 miles (60 km) north of Palm Springs, 89 miles (143 km) south of Barstow via State Route 247, 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Lucerne Valley and 55 miles (89 km) east of San Bernardino.

Bordered in the west by the San Bernardino Mountains and in the south by the Joshua Tree National Park, the Yucca Valley improve is positioned in the Mojave Desert at roughly 3,300 feet (1,000 m) above sea level.

Yucca Valley is governed by a town council.

Yucca Valley contracts its police and enhance safety services from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

In the California State Legislature, Yucca Valley is in the 16th Senate District, represented by Republican Jean Fuller, and in the 42nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Chad Mayes. In the United States House of Representatives, Yucca Valley is in California's 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook. Public education in Yucca Valley is under the administration of the Morongo Unified School District.

Yucca Valley has three neighborhood elementary schools (Onaga Elementary, Yucca Mesa Elementary, and Yucca Valley Elementary), one middle school (La Contenta Middle School), and two high schools (Yucca Valley High School and Black Rock Continuation High School).

Private schools in Yucca Valley include Our Lady of the Desert, a Christian school for K 12; Joshua Springs Christian School, non-denominational affiliation for PK 12; Grace Christian School, Brethren affiliation for K 12; Hi-Desert SDA Elementary, a 1 6, Seventh Day Adventist affiliation school; and Yucca Valley Christian School, affiliated with The Assembly of God, for PK 12.

Adult tutoring is also available in Yucca Valley, with tutoring knowledge available at the Yucca Valley Public Library.

Yucca Valley has three primary means of access; State Route 62 (Twentynine Palms Highway) runs east-west and is the chief thoroughfare through town.

State Route 247 (Old Woman Springs Road) begins in Yucca Valley and extends north through Barstow.

Yucca Valley lies in the middle of the Morongo Basin at a base altitude of 3,300 feet.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 40.0 square miles (104 km2).

Yucca Valley is positioned north of the Joshua Tree National Park, while the Little San Bernardino Mountains and many hills cover a large percentage of town/city area.

Yucca Valley has experienced high levels of seismic activity.

According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Yucca Valley has a cold desert climates, abbreviated "BWk" on climate maps. Essig was a key player in the late 1950s in working toward establishing Yucca Valley as a place for entertainment celebrities to come and live in privacy.

He was personal friends with Jimmy Van Heusen and gave him prime real estate in Yucca Valley to build his home which can still be seen up on the highest hill in the center of the town.

The blaze, titled the Sawtooth Complex fire, also burned into Yucca Valley and close-by Morongo Valley and finished roughly 64,000 acres (100 square miles) of desert landscape.

Yucca Valley is home to the geoglyph "Atlatl" by artist Andrew Rogers.

The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Yucca Valley had a populace of 20,700.

The ethnic makeup of Yucca Valley was 17,280 (83.5%) White (73.7% Non-Hispanic White), 666 (3.2%) African American, 232 (1.1%) Native American, 469 (2.3%) Asian, 44 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 1,185 (5.7%) from other competitions, and 824 (4.0%) from two or more competitions.

The populace was spread out with 4,937 citizens (23.9%) under the age of 18, 1,772 citizens (8.6%) aged 18 to 24, 4,676 citizens (22.6%) aged 25 to 44, 5,495 citizens (26.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,820 citizens (18.5%) who were 65 years of age or older.

12,220 citizens (59.0% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 8,261 citizens (39.9%) lived in rental housing units.

According to the 2010 United States Census, Yucca Valley had a median homehold income of $42,962, with 17.0% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Yucca Valley has among the top 20 highest percentages of Non-Hispanic White populations of any town in Southern California. Yucca Valley has the Twentynine Palms Base (US Marine Corps) 20 miles to the east and the Morongo Basin is home to temporary inhabitants who work on the base. Some new inhabitants move to Yucca Valley's large mass-planned Western Hills Estates evolution thriving to "small town living" in a town/city that restricts suburban sprawl. a b "Yucca Valley (town) Quick - Facts".

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