The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗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.
The location had a post office called Edom in 1913. The post office was moved in 1938 and then renamed "Thousand Palms" in 1939.
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Start Thousand Palms’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Thousand Palms’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Thousand Palms, decade by decade
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Commons2017-03-06 USA, CA, Thousand Palms DSC 1274 DxO2017
Commons2017-03-06 USA, CA, Thousand Palms DSC 1271 DxO2017
CommonsThousand Palms2012
CommonsThousand Palms (12.2010)2011
CommonsThousand Palms (12.2010) - panoramio - Martin Haeusler2011
CommonsThousand Palms Oasis, Coachella Valley Preserve, CA2009Nothing in Thousand Palms is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Thousand Palms has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Kenaston House in Rancho Mirage, 5.3 miles away.
Thousand Palms and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.