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Map of the Salton Sea drainage area. The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties in Southern California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and ...
It is located on the Salton Sea, 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of Frink [3] and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet (68 m) below sea level. [4] The population was 231 at the 2020 census, down from 295 in 2010, down from 366 in 2000. [5] It is part of the El Centro, California, metropolitan statistical area.
Salton Sea Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, located 2.5 miles (4 km) southeast of Desert Shores. [3] The population was 508 at the 2020 census, [ 4 ] up from 422 at the 2010 census, up from 392 at the 2000 census.
An air of decline and strange beauty permeates the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California that is on the verge of drying up as it competes against coastal cities for dwindling water resources ...
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All you can eat Mongolian barbecue (ditto). A lazy river using water siphoned from the Salton Sea (ditto, and he'd prefer if you call it the Sultan Sea, though the Imperial County Board of ...
In Sue Grafton's 1982 novel, A is for Alibi, Kinsey Millhone travels to the Salton Sea (presumably Salton City) for an interview with Greg Fife, who is living in a trailer by the sea. Salton City was a location for a gambling loan in Norm Macdonald's pseudo-biographical book Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir.
The Salton Sea Refuge is located at the southern end of the Salton Sea. The land of the refuge is flat, except for Rock Hill, a small, inactive volcano, and is bordered by the Salton Sea on the north and farmlands on the east, south, and west. The refuge is composed of two disjunctive units, separated by 18 miles (29 km) of private lands.