Desert Hot Springs, California
Riverside County
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Desert Hot Springs is a city in Riverside County in the U.S. state of California. It has 25,938 inhabitants (as of 2010) and is part of the Coachella Valley, which is also known as Desert Empire. Since the 1970s, when the population was still at 2700, the city has experienced a rapid development with a strong population increase.
Geography
Desert Hot Springs is located in north central Riverside County in the U.S. state of California and is surrounded exclusively by community- free environment. Through the town itself lost no significant highways, but south of Desert Hot Springs carries Interstate 10 along, from near the city of California State Route 62 exits and heads north along the eastern edge of town.
Desert Hot Springs has the prior census in 2010 collected 25,938 inhabitants and covers an area of 61.233 km ², of which 61.164 km ² land area is; The population density is therefore 424.1 people per square kilometer and is comparatively low. The center of Desert Hot Springs is located at an altitude of 328 m.
Geology
The city has two by the Mission Creek Fault ( sub area of the San Andreas Fault ) separate aquifer. The first is responsible for several thermal springs that supply the resorts and spas in the region with thermal water. The second aquifer on the other side of the Mission Creek Fault containing cold water from the Mission Springs Basin. It is used as drinking water and has won awards for special taste.
Climate
Desert Hot Springs has - like the entire Coachella Valley - Hot desert climate ( Effective climate classification: BWh ), with less than 150 mm of rainfall per year. Summers are very hot, temperatures above 42 ° C occur in July and August frequently. Minimum temperatures at night are at this time 26-32 ° C. Even the winters in Desert Hot Springs, with average temperatures between 20 and 28 ° C during the day and 10-18 ° C at night relatively mild.
History
The first settlement in the area of today's Desert Hot Springs Cabot Yerxa was created by. According to his articles in the newspaper " The Desert Sentinel" Hilda Maude Gray was the first settler in the area; she got her share of land awarded in 1908. In 1913, Cabot Yerxa reached the area and discovered on the Miracle Hill hot water. The San Andreas Fault divides the country into two sections, one with hot, the other cold water. Yerxa was here a building in the Pueblo Revival - style building; it was built by hand for 20 years and is now one of the oldest mud brick in Riverside County. It houses the Cabot 's Pueblo Museum and was taken after Yerxas death in the National Register of Historic Places in 1965. Opened in February 2008 Cabot 's Trading Post & Gallery.
The City of Desert Hot Springs itself was founded on July 12, 1941 by LW Coffee. The first part of the city was built on the present-day intersection of Palm Drive and Pierson Boulevard, its size was only 2.5 km ². The town name was chosen by Coffee due to the natural hot springs in place.
In the 1950s, Desert Hot Springs was thanks to its small spa and boutique hotels a popular tourist destination. Later real estate agent discovered in search of investment opportunities in Desert Hot Springs. Thousands of streets and plots were a result, on a 15.5 km ² large area created. Some houses were acquired by pensioners and 1963, Desert Hot Springs with 1,000 inhabitants at that time the municipal law.
The city grew significantly in the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, many of the still unused land with new houses and duplexes were built. By 1990, the population more than doubled, rising to the census in 2000 to 16,582 residents in.
In 1993 opened the 3-star Hotel " Mirage Springs Hotel Resort ". Although the hotel good reviews received and the city financial income from the company desperately needed, it closed in 1998, its doors again. Meanwhile, it was reopened under the name " Miracle Springs Resort and Spa".
The Desert Hot Springs High School founded in 1999. Meanwhile, the construction of two new public parks and several country clubs was proposed.
In 2001, the city was forced to declare bankruptcy. Since 2004, Desert Hot Springs is back pay, reason is the issue of bonds, after the city was sentenced by a court to make payments in the amount of 6 million U.S. dollars.
Demography
Desert Hot Springs has given its size a diverse population. The city is inhabited by people of different races and ethnic groups, the most significant proportion make citizens with Mexican and Central American ancestry from. Some areas of the city are dominated by certain ethnic groups, so there is between 8th Street and Cholla Drive a predominantly of Korean Americans populated area. Likewise, Desert Hot Springs was settled by several thousand Jews. A share of 10 percent of the urban population do according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) also from African Americans. The high proportion also Native American is achieved mainly by Cahuilla Indians, who now live in an Indian reservation in Palm Springs.
Policy
Desert Hot Springs is part of the 28th district in the Senate of California, which is currently represented by Democrat Ted Lieu, and the 56th District of the California State Assembly, represented by Democrat V. Manuel Perez. Furthermore belongs to Desert Hot Springs California 36th congressional district, which a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R 1 and is represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz.
Tourism
In Desert Hot Springs there are several spas with hot water. During the 1950s and 1960s the city had over 80 spa hotels, often referred to as " spa means of ". Since the late 1990s, many boutique hotels have been renovated and reactivated. With its architecture of the mid-20th century, this hotel speak especially to tourists with special needs.
A well-known hotel in Desert Hot Springs is the " Two Bunch Palms Resort ". It served as a filming location for the film The Player of 1992.
In 2001, was visited in the documentary series California 's Gold with Huell Howser, the " Desert Hot Springs Hotel and Spa".
Associated with Desert Hot Springs personalities
- Buddy Banks, tenor saxophonist and singer, died in 1991 in Desert Hot Springs
- Knute Hill, politicians, died in 1963 in Desert Hot Springs
- Jimmy Jackson, race car driver, died in 1984 in Desert Hot Springs
- Robert McAlmon, author and publisher, died in 1956 in Desert Hot Springs
- Rick Zumwalt, actor and world champion in arm wrestling, died in 2003 in Desert Hot Springs