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The Indio Hills are a low mountain range in the Colorado Desert. [ 1 ] located in Riverside County, California 's Coachella Valley . The hills were named for their proximity to the city of Indio , and are sometimes referred to as the Indio Mud Hills or Indio Sand Hills .
Indio Hills is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. [2] Indio Hills sits at an elevation of 1,017 feet (310 m). [ 2 ] The 2010 United States census reported Indio Hills's population was 972.
The stretch of SR 60 along the Moreno Valley Freeway made national headlines in April 2004, when five-year-old Ruby Bustamante of Indio and her 26-year-old mother, Norma, were reported missing. Their car had left the road, apparently unwitnessed, between the gap in two guard rails on April 4. It then crashed underneath a tree in a deep ravine.
The wilderness area extends from just west of the summit of Mount Pinos (8,831 ft; 2,692 m) to Cerro Noroeste (Mount Abel) to the west, and south into the badlands north of Lockwood Valley Road. Since Mount Pinos, Cerro Noroeste, and the Pine Mountain Club are developed with paved roads, they did not qualify for inclusion in the wilderness ...
The San Timoteo Badlands were excavated under by a team sponsored by Childs Frick from 1916 to 1921. [4] [5] [6] Comprising both the Mt. Eden Formation and the San Timoteo Formation, fossils from the Late Miocene, Pliocene and early Pleistocene have been recovered from several sites across the Badlands. [5] [7]
A pair of fast-burning fires ignited Sunday in Riverside County, rapidly scorching hundreds of acres of brush. Several structures were destroyed.
The Indio Hills Palms Park Property is managed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.The Coachella Valley Preserve, a 2,206-acre (8.93 km 2) area, is maintained by the non-profit Nature Conservancy and is one of the few in the desert with an oasis fed by natural springs that supports the only California native palm, the Washingtonia filifera, or California Fan Palm.
This area was previously known as 100 Palm Spring, as seen on 1874 maps and an official Land Office map dating to 1891. The post office was established in 1915, and the area was named Edom, California after the ancient Asian nation. However, in 1919, a residents petition was carried out and the name was changed to Thousand Palms.