City of Palm Desert, California
Country	United States
State	California
County	Riverside
Mayor	Jim Ferguson
Area
- City	63.7 km²
- Land	63.1 km²
- Water	0.6 km²
Population (2000)
- City	41,155
- Density	625.0/km²
Time zone	PST (UTC-8)
- Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)
Website: http://www.ci.palmdesert.ca.us/

Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. The population was 41,155 at the 2000 census. Other cites in the Coachella Valley are Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, Palm Springs, and Rancho Mirage. The city was one of the state's fastest growing in the 1980s and 1990s, began with 11,801 in 1980 to doubled to 23,650 in 1990 to doubled again to 35,000 in five years. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (960x1280, 539 KB) Summary I shot the picture myself. ... This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... The political units and divisions of the United States include: the fifty states, which units are typically divided into counties and townships, and incorporate cities, villages, towns, and other types of municipalities, and other autonomous or subordinate public authorities and institutions; and the federal state, which unit is the United... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties. ... Riverside County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from Orange County to the Colorado River, which is the border with Arizona. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... The Pacific Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... UTC-8 is a band of timezones separated from the Universal Time Coordinated by 8 hours. ...  Areas that observe daylight saving time  Areas that once observed daylight saving time  Areas that have never observed daylight saving time A 2001 public service announcement for the upcoming turning back of the clocks Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is a conventional local time adopted by... PDT is UTC-7 The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-8). ... Mountain Standard Time ... Riverside County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from Orange County to the Colorado River, which is the border with Arizona. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Coachella Valley The Coachella Valley is an irrigated agricultural and recreational desert valley in southern California east of Los Angeles. ... Palm Springs is a famed Riverside County, California, desert resort city, approximately 110 miles east of Los Angeles. ... Coachella Valley The Coachella Valley is an irrigated agricultural and recreational desert valley in southern California east of Los Angeles. ... Coachella Valley The Coachella Valley is an irrigated agricultural and recreational desert valley in southern California east of Los Angeles. ... The Fountain of Life in front of the city hall Cathedral City is a city located in Riverside County, California. ... Coachella is a city located in Riverside County, California; it is the easternmost city in the region collectively known as the Palm Springs area. ... Desert Hot Springs is a city located in Riverside County, California. ... Indian Wells may refer to Indian Wells, California, or the Indian Wells Masters tennis tournament held there Indian Wells, Arizona, a community within the Navajo Nation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Indio, California is a city located in the Coachella Valley of Southern Californias desert region. ... La Quinta is a resort city located in Riverside County, California, specifically in the Coachella Valley between Indian Wells and Indio. ... Palm Springs is the name of two places in the United States of America: Palm Springs, California — the more well known of the two Palm Springs, Florida Category: ... Rancho Mirage is a city located in Riverside County, California. ...

A major center of growth in the Palm Springs area, it was a popular retreat for "snowbirds" from colder climates (the Eastern and Northern US, and Canada), who swell its population by an estimated 31,000 each winter, but in the past couple of years Palm Desert has seen more residents become "full-timers" (mainly from California came for affordable but high-valued home prices) who now live in the city year-round. Palm Desert may have 75,000 to 85,000 at January 1st as the "season" peaks and decreases by half at July 1st as the hot desert summer comes by. Palm Desert is still viewed as a socio-politically conservative bastion, but shifted to a more liberal socio-political/cultural environment in the late 1990s. The term Snowbird is used to describe Canadians and people from the Northern or Midwestern United States who spend a large portion of winter in warmer locales such as Arizona, Florida or elsewhere along the Sunbelt region of the southern United States, areas of the Caribbean and even as far... Conservative may refer to: Conservatism, political philosophy A member of a Conservative Party Conservative extension, premise of deductive logic Conservativity theorem, mathematical proof of conservative extension Conservative Judaism britney spears Category: ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of...

History

The area was first known as the Old MacDonald Ranch, then Palm Village in the 1920s when date palms were planted. The first residential development occurred in 1943 in connection with an Army maintenance camp in the area. That site was later developed into "El Paseo," an upscale shopping district not unlike Rodeo Drive. In 1948, the Palm Desert Corporation began to develop real estate, and in 1951 the area was given its present name. Many celebrities keep homes in Palm Desert, including Rita Rudner and more recently, the current home of teenage pro golfer Michelle Wie and one of the homes of Bill Gates. The community was incorporated November 26, 1973 when it only had 1,500 permanent residents in a master-planned community covered with desert, from Palm Springs to Indio at the time. The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Binomial name Phoenix dactylifera L. The Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera is a palm, extensively cultivated for its edible fruit. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... It has been suggested that United States Army values be merged into this article or section. ... Modern Art display on El Paseos median El Paseo is downtown Palm Deserts main shopping street. ... Rodeo Drive Rodeo Drive (pronounced Spanish: ro-DAY-oh) is a famous three-block long stretch of boutiques and shops in Beverly Hills, California, United States. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Rita Rudner Rita Rudner (b. ... Michelle Sung Wie (born October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a professional American golfer who has gained attention for her many attempts to make a cut at a PGA Tour event. ... For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Palm Desert once served as a training ground for General George Patton's Third Army troops and tank battalions. After world war II, Clifford Henderson, a L.A.-based developer made the sold land into his dreamed community "Palm Village" in 1946, but that name was changed to "Palm Desert" in 1950. The first golf course/tennis club was Shadow Mountain in 1952, followed by Marrakesh in 1954, and the Palm Desert Country Club in 1961 located five miles east, was formally annexed by the city in 1992, is once again a trendy gem of the "world's golf capital". The city developed a major shopping area when the Palm Desert Town Center (now the Westfield Shoppingtown-Palm Desert) opened in 1983. George Smith Patton Jr. ... Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. Third Army. ... Westfield Palm Desert, formerly Palm Desert Town Center, is a shopping mall in Palm Desert, California, owned by The Westfield Group. ... Places: Westfield is a place name for the following: In Australia: Westfield, Western Australia In Canada: Westfield, New Brunswick In New Zealand: Westfield, New Zealand In the United States: Westfield, Illinois Westfield, Indiana Westfield, Iowa Westfield, Maine Westfield, Massachusetts Westfield, New Jersey Westfield (village), New York Westfield (town), New York...

The rapid growth and several annexations in the 1980s/1990s has made Palm Desert to the main center of business activity in the Coachella Valley, although Indio is the most populous city at 75,000 in 2005, is the home of the majority of Palm Desert's employees who come to work daily or seasonally.

Education

Palm Desert is the home of the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, a combination zoo and botanical garden featuring an extensive collection of desert plants and animals. It is also the site of the campus of College of the Desert, the local community college, as well as an extension campuses for both California State University, San Bernardino and the University of California Riverside. Its main High School is Palm Desert High School (with 2500 students) and its main Middle School (with 1600 students) is Palm Desert Middle School. Living Desert Zoo and Gardens (1200 acres) are desert botanical gardens and a zoo located at 47-900 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert, California. ... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo Zoo redirects here. ... Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to... College of the Desert (or COD) is a public two-year community college located in Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California. ... View of campus with San Bernardino Mountains on the background. ... The University of California, Riverside, is a public coeducational university whose main campus is in a suburban district of the city of Riverside, California. ... Palm Desert High School is a secondary school located in Palm Desert, California. ... Palm Desert Middle School (PDMS for short) origially became founded by Mr. ...

Culture

As the home of the pioneering band Kyuss and its successor group Queens of the Stone Age, the Palm Desert Scene is considered one of the cradles of the stoner rock movement. Palm Desert, alike Palm Springs got its' nickname "Boomertown" to indicate the baby boom generation, an aging mega-group in America, are moving in Palm Desert with its' subculture to make a new trend: Baby-boom majority cities way over half the local population. Palm Desert remains a recreational mecca for golfers, tennis players, water sports, hikers and bicyclists. This article is about the band Kyuss. ... Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) is a rock band[1] from the Palm Desert, California area in the United States, formed in 1997. ... The Palm Desert Scene is a name given to a group of closely related bands and musicians which originated in the early nineties in Palm Desert, Southern California. ... Stoner rock and stoner metal are interchangeable terms describing sub-genres of rock and metal music. ... A baby boom is any period of greatly increased birth rate within temporal and usually geographical bounds. ...

Geography

Palm Desert is located at 33°43′32″N, 116°22′10″W (33.725542, -116.369444)^GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 63.7 km² (24.6 mi²). 63.1 km² (24.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (1.02%) is water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ...

The elevation (City hall) is 250 feet (80 meters) above sea level.

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 original name was Sun City Palm Springs from 1991 to 1996). Sun City Palm Desert is a luxury gated community located in Riverside County, California, in the Palm Springs area, approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. ...

Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 41,155 people, 19,184 households, and 11,414 families residing in the city. The population density was 652.0/km² (1,689.1/mi²). There were 28,021 housing units at an average density of 443.9/km² (1,150.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.84% White, 1.20% African American, 0.45% Native American, 2.57% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 6.48% from other races, and 2.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.08% of the population. 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... Race, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is a self-identification data item in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...

The global appeal of Palm Desert as the "place to be" for tourists has made it home to thousands of retired Canadians, Europeans, and Australians, but Palm Desert isn't entirely homogeneous: affluent African-Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans moved to this formerly "all-white" city. There are many persons of Armenian, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish and Jewish ancestry from Europe or the US. Other groups include Arab Americans, Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... In 2003 the European population was estimated 799,466,000, about 1/8 of the world population. ... Look up Homogeneous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... Latino refers to people living in the US of Latin American nationality and their US-born descendants. ... An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Arab Americans constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from 22 Morocco in the west to Oman in the east. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Serving from 1999 to 2003, Army General Eric Shinseki of Hawaii became the first Asian American military chief of staff. ...

There were 19,184 households out of which 18.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.5% were non-families. 32.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.67. The demographics of Palm Desert shows otherwise a rising population of children and young adults. Matrimony redirects here. ...

In the city the population was spread out with 17.3% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 27.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 92.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.7 males. Palm Desert with the rest of the Coachella Valley has a large senior citizen (over age of 55) community, most of them have annual personal incomes exceeding well over $100,000. Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ...

The median income for a household in the city was $48,316, and the median income for a family was $58,183. Males had a median income of $42,257 versus $32,202 for females. The per capita income for the city was $33,463. About 5.9% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.1% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over. Palm Desert is considered an upper-class community in terms of above average incomes for both California and the nation. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Sister cities

Palm Desert had been in the sister cities program, as designated by Sister Cities International Inc (SCI) [1] Here are six cities that are or formerly was associated with Palm Desert.

• Wollongong, New South Wales
• Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada
• Haifa, Israel
• La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
• Gisborne, New Zealand
• Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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• Ketchikan, Alaska, USA

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Points of interest

• Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
• El Paseo
• Sun City Palm Desert, California
• Palm Desert Scene
• College of the Desert

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens (1200 acres) are desert botanical gardens and a zoo located at 47-900 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert, California. ... Modern Art display on El Paseos median El Paseo is downtown Palm Deserts main shopping street. ... Sun City Palm Desert is a luxury gated community located in Riverside County, California, in the Palm Springs area, approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. ... The Palm Desert Scene is a name given to a group of closely related bands and musicians which originated in the early nineties in Palm Desert, Southern California. ... College of the Desert (or COD) is a public two-year community college located in Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California. ...

External links

• City of Palm Desert homepage
• Palm Desert government page
• The Desert Sun, Coachella Valley Newspaper
• College of the Desert website]
• KESQ-TV/KDFX-CA/KUNA-LP website
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