Elevations vary from the lower northern half once covered in sand dunes to the upper slope southern cove (300–900 feet or 91–274 metres) all the way to the ridgeline at 1,000 feet (300 m). The elevation (City hall) is 224 feet (68 m) above sea level. In 1948, the Palm Desert Corporation began to develop real estate, and in 1951 the area was given its present name.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.0 square miles (70 km 2), of which, 26.8 square miles (69 km 2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) of it (0.76%) is water. That site was later developed into " El Paseo", an upscale shopping district not unlike Rodeo Drive. The first residential development occurred in 1943 in connection with an Army maintenance camp in the area.
Local historians said the main residents of pre-1950 Palm Desert were Cahuilla Indian farmers of the now extinct San Cayetano tribe, but a few members of the Montoya family of Cahuilla/Spanish descent were prominent leaders in civic life. The area was first known as the Old MacDonald Ranch, but the name changed to Palm Village in the 1920s when date palms were planted. Their bird songs and funeral songs share the oral tradition of how they were present on these lands for over 10,000 years. The ancestral homeland of Cahuilla, a division of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. JSTOR ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Palm Desert, California" – news Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
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