Desert Center, CA

Desert Center is a census-designated place in the Colorado Desert in Riverside County, California. The 2020 census counted 256 residents. Desert Center is in southern California, between the cities of Indio and Blythe at the junction of Interstate 10 and State Route 177, about halfway between Phoenix and Los Angeles. The elevation is 656 feet. Desert Center's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider California setting. The local scoop is how Desert Center's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. In 1915, he left his farm in the Palo Verde Valley along the Colorado River to attend to some business in Los Angeles. In the vicinity of Desert Center are the Chuckwalla Mountains, Corn Springs, Eagle Mountain, and Chiriaco Summit and museum. Desert Center includes the site of Kaiser Steel Eagle Mountain.