* Desert Hot Springs, California

Desert Hot Springs, also known as DHS, is a city in Riverside County, California, United States.

Coffee chose the name Desert Hot Springs because of the area's natural hot springs.

Desert Hot Springs became a tourist destination in the 1950s because of its small spa hotels and boutique hotels.

Desert Hot Springs experienced periods of significant growth in the 1980s and 1990s, when most of the vacant lots were filled with new houses and duplex apartments.

Desert Hot Springs High School opened in 1999, two new public parks and several country clubs were proposed.

One aquifer has several natural hot springs in the Desert Hot Springs Sub-Basin and they support the area's spas and resorts.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Desert Hot Springs had a population of 25, 938.

The racial makeup of Desert Hot Springs was 15, 053 ( 58. 0 %) White, 2, 133 ( 8. 2 %) African American, 357 ( 1. 4 %) Native American, 675 ( 2. 6 %) Asian, 84 ( 0. 3 %) Pacific Islander, 6, 343 ( 24. 5 %) from other races, and 1, 293 ( 5. 0 %) from two or more races.

In Desert Hot Springs the age of the population was spread out with 33. 3 % under the age of 18, 9. 7 % from 18 to 24, 29. 4 % from 25 to 44, 16. 5 % from 45 to 64, and 11. 1 % who were 65 years of age or older.

Desert Hot Springs has a reputation as an active adult community, where many retirees choose to live.

Desert Hot Springs has a diverse population for a city its size.

In the state Legislature, Desert Hot Springs is located in the 37th Senate District, represented by Republican Bill Emmerson and in the 80th Assembly represented by Democrat Manuel Perez.

Desert Hot Springs is located in California's 41st congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 9 and is represented by Republican Jerry Lewis.

Desert Hot Springs is represented at the County level by Riverside County Supervisor 4th District John Benoit.

Desert Hot Springs is served by Mayor Yvonne Parks, Mayor Pro.

While Desert Hot Springs is a California charter city, the city council requires all city funded projects to pay prevailing wage.

City Hall is located at 65950 Pierson Blvd, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240

The Desert Hot Springs Police Department was established in 1997 after residents complained to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department about being underserved by a part-time deputy from the Palm Desert regional station.

The police department is headed by Desert Hot Springs Police Chief Patrick Williams who was hired in 2006.

In two separate municipal ballot measures, Desert Hot Springs residents approved a utility users tax and a public safety tax by majorities of over 75 percent.

Desert Hot Springs is home to a number of hot mineral water spas.

One famous spa hotel property in Desert Hot Springs is Two Bunch Palms Resort.

* 760: 959-1114 Palm Springs / Palm Desert, CA ( Current for all GTE CA switches )

Tertiary breccia at Resting Springs Pass, Mojave Desert, California.

Many exteriors were filmed on location in Palm Springs, Lucerne Valley, the Ojai Valley, the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and in what is now Westlake Village, adding the cost of transporting cast, crew, and equipment to the swelling budget.

Bush Tucker ( bush foods ) harvested at Alice Springs Desert Park.

* Alice Springs Desert Park

Alice Springs Desert Park, Bush Tucker

It is in the Simpson Desert, and one of the major features of the park is the Dalhousie Springs.

Desert Shores ( formerly, Fish Springs ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Imperial County, California.

Other golf courses are the De Anza Palm Springs Country Club and Mobile Home Park, the Outdoor Resorts RV Golf Club Palm Springs, and the Doral Desert Princess Resort and Golf Club.

* Palm Springs Desert Resort Communities Convention & Visitors Authority

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

The area is agriculturally poor except in the river valleys, being rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Karakum Desert.

The Kalahari Desert is in the central and the southwest.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

In the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, many of which antedate the fourth century, there is frequent evidence of individual anchorites possessing in book-form collections of the Psalms.

This then is our earliest evidence of monks praying the Psalms as the main part of their daily scripted and Scriptural prayer regimen: the Desert Fathers.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert.

The Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally | Cholistan Jeep Rally is held in the city every year in the Cholistan desert

Transmontane chaparral features xeric desert climate-not Mediterranean climate habitats, and is also referred to as Desert chaparral.

Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

* Opuntia phaecantha, Desert prickly pear ( fruit is important food source for animals )

Nearby is also the semi-arid area known as the Accona Desert.

Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

Through the Desert ( Into the Desert in older edition ) is similar to The Four Islands, but consists of a large continent and smaller outlying islands.