Louisiana · LA
Norco
A refinery town named for the New Orleans Refining Company.
- Population
- 2,984 (2020 census)
- Named
- 1911
- Next door
- Bonnet Carré Spillway
Then
- 1911
An agent for Shell buys the land, and its subsidiary, the New Orleans Refining Company, gives the town its name.
Now
A major Shell and Valero complex dominates Norco; the town's divide over it is the subject of the PBS documentary Fenceline. The Bonnet Carré Spillway, on the town's edge, sends Mississippi floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain.