Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Romoland, CA

Romoland is an unincorporated census-designated place in Riverside County, California, along Highway 74 between Perris and Menifee.

Romoland had a population of 2,005 at the 2020 census, up from 1,684 at the 2010 census, within a CDP of only about 2.6 square miles.

Romoland began as Ethanac, where the first Ethanac Post Office opened on June 25, 1900, named after early settler Ethan Allen Chase.

In 1925 the town was renamed Romola Farms and developed by the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, which sold small ranches of four to five acres for growing fig trees and grapes.

When the Post Office Department asked for another name change to avoid confusion with the Ramona post office in San Diego County, the community took its final name, Romoland.

On October 1, 2008, a large portion of historic Romoland was absorbed into the newly incorporated city of Menifee, leaving today's Romoland CDP as the unincorporated remainder.

Before Menifee's incorporation, the broader Romoland area between Perris, Homeland, Nuevo, and Menifee may have held more than 100,000 residents across about 30 square miles, all using the Romoland name.

The Motte Historical Museum in Romoland, housed in a replica barn built in 1985 along Highway 74, displays classic cars and documents the valley's agricultural roots.

Romoland's population has swung sharply with boundary changes: it counted 2,764 people in 785 households at the 2000 census, before much of the community was carved away into Menifee.