Rancho Mirage
| Rancho Mirage, California | ||
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California State Route 111 in Rancho Mirage
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 Location in Riverside County and the state of California |
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 Rancho Mirage, California
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| Coordinates: 33°46′9″N 116°25′16″W / 33.76917°N 116.42111°WCoordinates: 33°46′9″N 116°25′16″W / 33.76917°N 116.42111°W | ||
| Country |  United States of America |
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 California
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 Riverside
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| Incorporated | August 3, 1973 | |
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| • Total | 24.836 sq mi (64.326 km2) | |
| • Land | 24.447 sq mi (63.318 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.389 sq mi (1.008 km2) 1.57% | |
| Elevation | 272 ft (83 m) | |
| Population (April 1, 2010) | ||
| • Total | 17,218 | |
| • Estimate (2013) | 17,799 | |
| • Density | 690/sq mi (270/km2) | |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) | |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) | |
| ZIP code | 92270 | |
| Area codes | 442/760 | |
| FIPS code | 06-59500 | |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1661281, 2411515 | |
| Website | www |
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Rancho Mirage is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal (part-time) population can exceed 20,000. Located between Cathedral City and Palm Desert, it is one of the nine cities of the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area). Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the "Cove communities" (Desert, Magnesia, Palmas, Tamarisk and Thunderbird), and had 3,000 permanent residents at the time. Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, died at his home in the city in 2006, and Jane Wyman died one year later at her home in the same city.
Although the first modern settlements date back to the 1920s and 1930s, Rancho Mirage got its claim to fame after World War II. The Annenberg Estate or Sunnylands, owned by philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg, had long been popular with the wealthy and powerful, including Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Queen Elizabeth II, Patrick Macnee and Mary Martin. Several United States Presidents have vacationed at the Annenberg estate, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford. Ford later bought a house in Rancho Mirage and was living there at the time of his death in 2006. The Betty Ford Center, a world-renowned addiction rehabilitation center, is located in Rancho Mirage at the Eisenhower Medical Center. President Barack Obama has also used Sunnylands for summit meetings with world leaders during his administration.
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