Chrome (formerly Crome) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Glenn County Glenn County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,917. The county seat is Willows. It is located in the Sacramento Valley, in the northern part of the California Central Valley. The ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. It is located north of Elk Creek, at an elevation of 935 feet (285 m). The community lies on Country Road 306. Its zip code is 95963. Chrome is named for the

chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

that was mined in the area. The local chromium mill closed in the 1940s when the major mines were exhausted. Chrome had a school until the 1950s. In 1978, the old Chrome schoolhouse, built in 1891, was moved to the Glenn County Fairgrounds in Orland.

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Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Glenn County, California {{GlennCountyCA-geo-stub