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Desert is an unincorporated community in Collin County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 25 in 2000. It is located within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex .
Another rough definition of the region is the area south of the Parallel 36°30′ north. [1] Several climates can be found in the region— desert / semi-desert ( Eastern California , Nevada , Arizona , New Mexico , Utah , and West Texas ), Mediterranean ( California ), humid subtropical ( Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , Florida , Georgia ...
On the other hand, he noted that Palm Springs is a more expensive desert area. “It is a haven for luxury,” he said. “Think holiday houses, retirement houses and short-time period rentals.”
[2] [3] The area is generally bilingual in English and Spanish, with a fair amount of Spanglish [4] due to the region's diverse history and transborder agglomerations. [5] It is home to some of the poorest cities in the nation, as well as many unincorporated, persistent poverty communities called colonias.
Located in Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, Indio is home to at least five major 55+ active adult retirement communities that combine for more than 6,500 homes.
The Farm Housing provisions of the United States Code define a colonia as a community that (1) is in the state of Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas; (2) is within 150 miles (240 km) of the Mexico–U.S. border (except for any metropolitan area exceeding one million people); (3) on the basis of objective criteria, lacks adequate sewage ...
In the dusty desert of Marfa, Texas, hotel and campground El Cosmico serves as an eclectic respite in Far West Texas. Well, you could argue that calling El Cosmico a "hotel" is a stretch.
Desert Haven is an unincorporated community in Hudspeth County, Texas, United States. It lies along US Highway 62 – 180 in the northwestern part of the county, just east of the El Paso County line, approximately 28 miles east of El Paso , and is synonymous with Loma Linda Estates Colonia.