Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 28021
Land area (2000): 24.365763 sq. miles (63.107034 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.248894 sq. miles (0.644632 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 24.614657 sq. miles (63.751666 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55184
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.725542 N, 116.369444 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Palm Desert
Usage examples of "palm desert".
Eleven galleries so far today, starting with two in Palm Desert, followed by four in San Diego, two in La Jolla, and three in Laguna Beach.
Scratch Palm Springs and Palm Desert and Indio and Twenty-nine Palms, forget about the valley of the Colorado River.
And by the way, Rocco Caggiano, the lawyer who represented our mysterious pharmacist who allegedly fled to Palm Desert?
Alan Whittier, who as a teenager had murdered his mother and sister in their trailer in Palm Desert, and then had gone on to kill six people at a gas station and three others in a supermarket parking lot, until he finally turned himself in to the police, sobbing, hysterical with guilt and remorse.
Only then did it dawn on Norman who this man was: Alan Whittier, who as a teenager had murdered his mother and sister in their trailer in Palm Desert, and then had gone on to kill six people at a gas station and three others in a supermarket parking lot, until he finally turned himself in to the police, sobbing, hysterical with guilt and remorse.
No more parties, no more jitterbugging at Al Arif, no more frothy upper-class murder cases in Palm Desert or Beverly Glen.