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Perris was established in 1885 when, after a land title dispute at nearby Pinacate, most of that town's residents moved two miles north along the California Southern Railroad and founded a new town around the depot.

The city is named in honor of Fred T. Perris, chief engineer of the California Southern Railroad, which built through the town site in 1882 to link Barstow and San Diego.

Perris was incorporated on May 26, 1911, and it was originally part of San Diego County before being transferred to the newly established Riverside County in 1892.

The historic Perris Depot is documented in the Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey, and the Perris station came online in April 1886 with six passenger trains and two freight trains stopping daily by 1887.

Perris had a population of 78,700 at the 2020 census, and its roughly 19,400 households are notably large, averaging about 4.1 people per household.

Perris is best known for Lake Perris, the reservoir and State Recreation Area just east of the city that anchors its reputation for outdoor recreation in the sunny, dry Inland Empire.

The Southern California Railway Museum, formerly the Orange Empire Railway Museum, operates at Pinacate Station within Perris, preserving the city's deep railroad heritage.

Skydive Perris, at Perris Valley Airport, is one of the largest skydiving drop zones in the world; the Conatser family bought the airfield in 1976, and the drop zone is one of the few on the planet with an on-site vertical wind tunnel for indoor skydiving.

Perris is served by Metrolink's 91/Perris Valley Line, with trains stopping at the Perris-Downtown and Perris-South stations.