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Norco, California

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Norco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92860. The Survey maps it on the Corona North quadrangle. 26,316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Norco within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Norco, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Norco, surveyed 1901

On record in Norco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Norco fell from 27,063 to 26,316 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201027,063
202026,316-747 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 38 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

792 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 792 fires within 5 miles of Norco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,787 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 60 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined422
Equipment and vehicle use167
Arson/incendiarism60
Smoking50
Misuse of fire by a minor44
Debris and open burning37
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresRiverside UnitWOODWARD AV NORC
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitCLUBHOUSE DR NORC
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitRIVER
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitQUARTER HORSE DR EVAL
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionANDOVER ST HOMG
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresRiverside UnitLIMONITE
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Norco: 17 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fletcher ProspectMolybdenum, CopperOccurrenceMolybdenite
Home GardensKyaniteOccurrence
Lane BrothersGranitePast Producer
Molybdenite OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
Corona Division Quarry and MillStoneProducer
Corona QuarryStonePast Producer
Jordan Tile Manufacturing Co.ClayPast Producer
Mt. Hole QuarriesStone, DimensionPast Producer
Pacific Clay Product PlantClayUnknown
Sierra Grande QuarriesStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norco in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 7 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2000LightningNorco3 hurtno account filed
January 2003WildfireNorco1 hurt, $75,000no account filed
November 2002WildfireNorco1 hurt, $30,000no account filed
October 2012FloodNorco$60,000Two homes on Crestview Drive between Mount Shasta and Mount Rushmore Drives sustained damage to the insides of the residences. Eight additional homes on the block sustained damage on the external portion. No injuries and no residents displaced.
February 2002WildfireNorco-no account filed
June 2002WildfireNorco-no account filed
July 2002WildfireNorco-no account filed
September 2002WildfireNorco-no account filed
October 1999WildfireNorco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riverside County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eastvale2.4 miles38
La Sierra2.9 miles43
La Sierra Heights3.4 miles43
Porphyry3.8 miles38
Home Gardens3.9 miles38
May3.9 miles43
Corona4.0 miles38
Arlanza4.5 miles43

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on NorcoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q983606The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1652819. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.