About Norco, California

Norco is a city in Riverside County, California, in the United States. Norco is known as Horsetown, USA and prides itself on being a "horse community," with horse trails, hitching posts, and corrals, and city ordinances requiring construction to have a "traditional, rustic... Western flavor".As of the 2020 census, the city population was 26,316, down from 27,063 at the 2010 census. == History == The area was part of Rancho La Sierra granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Vicenta Sepulveda.The city's name is a portmanteau of "North Corona", named after the North Corona Land Company.Norco had its "grand opening" on Mother's Day, May 13, 1923, and was later incorporated as a city on December 28, 1964. == Geography == According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.3 square miles (37 km2) of which 14.0 square miles (36 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 2.22%, is water.