Additional places near and west of Twentynine palms include Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, and Morongo Valley.

In July 2006, a fire started by dry lightning in Yucca Valley was almost 100 percent contained, however due to extremely low humidity, high temperatures, and 40 mile per hour gusts, the fire grew.

The fire quickly spread from Yucca Valley through Pioneertown and Big Morongo.

Yucca Valley is an incorporated town located in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Yucca Valley lies west of Twentynine Palms, north of Palm Springs, south of Barstow via State Route 247, southeast of Lucerne Valley and east of San Bernardino.

Bordered in the west by the San Bernardino Mountains and in the south by the Joshua Tree National Park, the Yucca Valley community is located in the Mojave Desert at roughly above sea level.

Yucca Valley is governed by a town council whose mayor as of 2011 is George Huntington.

Yucca Valley contracts its police and public safety services from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Yucca Valley, with its 22, 000 citizens rests in the middle of the Morongo Basin with proximity to Southern California ’ s finest vacation spots and outdoor areas.

At a base elevation of 3300 feet, Yucca Valley enjoys a unique combination of mild but seasonable weather.

Yucca Valley is proud of their clean air, dark night skies, spectacular vistas and casual lifestyle.

Norman J. Essig was a key player in the late 1950s in working toward establishing Yucca Valley as a place for entertainment celebrities to come and live in privacy.

He was personal friends with the late Jimmy Van Heusen and gave him prime real estate in Yucca Valley to build his house which can still be seen atop the highest hill in the center of the town.

In the state legislature Yucca Valley is located in the 31st Senate District, represented by Republican Robert Dutton, and in the 65th Assembly District, represented by Republican Paul Cook.

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

Public education in Yucca Valley is under the administration of the Morongo Unified School District.

Yucca Valley has 3 neighborhood elementary schools — Onaga Elementary, Yucca Mesa Elementary, and Yucca Valley Elementary ; one middle school — La Contenta Middle School ; and two high schools -- Yucca Valley High School and Sky Continuation High School.

** The U. S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States ' nuclear repository.

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a U. S. Department of Energy terminal storage facility for spent nuclear reactor and other radioactive waste, is in tuff and ignimbrite in the Basin and Range Province in Nevada.

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.

To the south, the genus is represented throughout Mexico and extends into Guatemala ( Yucca guatemalensis ).

The center of population of Nevada is located in Nye County, very near Yucca Mountain.

Adult tutoring is also available in Yucca Valley, with tutoring information available at the Yucca Valley Public Library.

Yucca Valley has three major means of access ; State Route 62 ( Twentynine Palms Highway ) runs east-west and is the main thoroughfare through town.

Yucca Valley has the Twentynine Palms Base ( US Marine Corps ) 20 miles to the east and the Morongo Basin is home to temporary residents who work on the base.

The plant was in operation from 1960 to 1992, and the plant is now completely decommissioned, with the nuclear waste set to be transported to Yucca Mountain's containment facilities upon their completion in 2020.

In 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and directed DOE to study only Yucca Mountain, which is already located within a former nuclear test site.

The Act provided that if during Site Characterization the Yucca Mountain location is found unsuitable, studies will be stopped immediately.

Reid has said that he would continue to work to block completion of the project, and is quoted as having said: " Yucca Mountain is dead.

The purpose of the Yucca Mountain project is to comply with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and develop a national site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste storage.

The Nevada Test Site and proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository are located in the southwestern part of the county and are the focus of a great deal of political and public controversy in the state.

The repository was located instead in Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

MCT produces 15 shows each year in three performance spaces-Davis Theatre I ( 485 seats ) and Mabee Theatre II ( 155 seats ), located in the Cole Theatre, and the annual fundraiser Summer Mummers in the historic Yucca Theatre.

The only two towns to be established within the boundaries of NTS prior to 1947, BJ Wye and Mule Lick, are located in Yucca Flats, in Area 6.

Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc ( headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe ) and Cortez, Colorado.

Yucca House National Monument is located in the Montezuma Valley at the foot of Sleeping Ute Mountain, called " mountain with lots of yucca growing on it " by the Ute people, and inspiration for the name of the national monument.

* Yucca Valley High School located in Yucca Valley, California.

Forever Ranch and Gardens,, is a new desert botanical garden located approximately from Yucca, Arizona, and south of Kingman, Arizona.

* Yucca de Lac, a famous high-class western restaurant was located in Ma Liu Shui.

From Baja California in the west, northwards into the southwestern United States, through the drier central states as far north as Alberta in Canada ( Yucca glauca ssp.

State Route 247 ( Old Woman Springs Road ) begins in Yucca Valley and extends north through Barstow.

Area 51 is north of NTS and the proposed high-level nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain is at the southwest corner.

A number of proof-of-concept cratering blasts were conducted ; including the Buggy shot of 5 1-Kt-devices for a channel / trench in Area 21 and the largest being 104 kiloton ( 435 terajoule ) on July 6, 1962 at the north end of Yucca Flats, within the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site ( NTS ) in southern Nevada.

Yucca baccata ( Datil yucca or Banana yucca ) is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, from southeastern California north to Utah, east to western Texas and south to Sonora and Chihuahua.

The Yucca Corridor lies along the north side of the busiest part of Hollywood Boulevard.