Thousand Palms is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 7,715 at the 2010 census, up from 5,120 at the 2000 census.

Thousand Palms is located at 33°49′01″N 116°23′14″W / 33.816868°N 116.387143°W / 33.816868; -116.387143.
It borders the cities of Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 23.6 square miles (61 km²), all of it land.

The Coachella Valley Preserve is a 20,000-acre large nature maintain consisting of several natural desert oases, aeolian sand dunes, and California aficionado palm tree groves. It is house to endangered wildlife such as the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard and other rare endemic species to the Sonoran Desert. The oases similar to their springs and ponds were created as the lines of the San Andreas Fault allow for underground water to rise to the surface. It is house to 183 bird species, and next an endangered fish species, the Desert pupfish. The preserve has exceeding 25 miles of hiking trails and has been inhabited for centuries by Native Americans. The preserve was in addition to a popular stagecoach End between Los Angeles the gold mines along the Colorado River.

Large colonies of enthusiast palms have for long been named a thousand palms. This Place was back known as 100 Palm Spring, as seen upon 1874 maps and an certified Land Office map dating to 1891. The declare office was usual 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 say was misrepresented to Thousand Palms.