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Adelanto is in the Victor Valley of the south-central Mojave Desert, north of the Cajon Pass and San Bernardino Valley. [16]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 56.0 square miles (145 km 2). 56.0 square miles (145 km 2) of it is land and 0.02 square miles (0.052 km 2) of it (0.03%) is water.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 5.6 square miles (14.4 km 2), 5.2 square miles (13.4 km 2) of it land, and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (7.15%) water. Helendale is located in a generally flat area in the Mojave Desert , between Victorville and Barstow .
El Mirage Lake is a dry lake bed in the northwestern Victor Valley of the central Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California.. The lake is located about 9 miles (14 km) west-northwest of the town of Adelanto and 10 mi (16 km) north of Highway 18 in San Bernardino County.
Adelanto is a former state prison about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles that began operating as an ICE detention center in 2011. In total, California facilities can hold nearly 7,200 detainees.
The city has invested millions of dollars into “dewatering wells,” sucking more than 112 million gallons of destabilizing water out of the ground in a desperate effort to shore up neighborhoods.
The road then enters Adelanto, on the western edge of Victorville. Victorville, founded by the Santa Fe Railroad to take advantage of water along the Mojave River, and for most of its history home to George Air Force Base, [10] was the second fastest growing city in the United States from July 2006 to July 2007. [11]
It is a cooperative of fourteen cities, eleven municipal water districts, and one county water authority, that provides water to 19 million people in a 5,200-square-mile (13,000 km 2) service area. It was created by an act of the California State Legislature in 1928, primarily to build and operate the Colorado River Aqueduct .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 73.2 square miles (190 km 2), with 73.1 square miles (189 km 2) of land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) (0.15%) covered by water. On the southern edge of Hesperia, where the city meets the desert by the airport to the east, is a somewhat pronounced mesa.