Twentynine Palms, California

Twentynine Palms, also written 29 Palms, is a city in San Bernardino County in the Mojave Desert of southern California. It is one of the entry points to Joshua Tree National Park, which lies just to the south of the city. The community takes its name from the twenty-nine fan palms that the Serrano people had planted around the Oasis of Mara, where Colonel Henry Washington made the first recorded exploration of the area and met Chemehuevi people living near the spring. A small reservation of the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians lies nearby, and the post office opened in 1927. The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, founded in 1952, sits close to the city and shapes the town. Twentynine Palms first appeared as a census designated place in the 1970 census and as a city in 1990. The 2020 census counted 28,065 residents.