Editing Yucca Valley, California (section)

==History==
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Native Americans inhabited the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1984-Part-1-of-3-The-Heritage-of-Yucca-Valley-California-Including-Giant-Rock-by-Joan-Wilson.pdf|title=The Heritage of Yucca Valley}}</ref>

Norman J. Essig was key in the late 1950s in working towards establishing Yucca Valley as a place for entertainment celebrities to come and live in privacy. He personally acquired hundreds of acres of land during this time and owned and ran Glenn Realty. He helped to put in the main roads that are running throughout the town off of Hwy 62. He was personal friends with [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] the composer and gave him prime real estate in Yucca Valley to build his house which can still be seen atop the highest hill in the center of the town.

In 1992, three large earthquakes occurred near the city, the magnitude 6.1 Joshua Tree earthquake on April 22, and on June 28 the [[1992 Landers earthquake|7.3 Landers]] and [[1992 Big Bear earthquake|6.5 Big Bear]] earthquakes.

The 7.1 magnitude [[Hector Mine earthquake]] on October 16, 1999, had an epicenter {{convert|30|mi}} north of town.

On July 11, 2006, a wildfire started by lightning raced through neighboring [[Pioneertown, California|Pioneertown]].  The blaze, named the [[Sawtooth Complex fire]], also burned into [[Yucca Valley]] and nearby [[Morongo Valley]] and destroyed roughly {{convert|64,000|acres}} of desert landscape.