Glenn is an

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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 ...

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. It lies at an elevation of 98 feet (30 m). The town is located on the

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, at the intersection of State Route 45 and State Route 162. It is about ten miles (16 km) east of

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and

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on the U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute quadrangle, ''Glenn, California''. The U.S. Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database, calls its existence official with a feature ID of 1658621 and lists the NAD27 coordinates of the community as . The ZIP Code, shared with Ordbend and Bayliss, is 95943. The community is inside

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. This area is flagged as rural by the U.S. Census Bureau.

History

The first post office at Glenn opened in 1903. A. K. Barham owned and operated the Glenn Store and on November 14, 1913, was appointed

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. At that time, the post office was located in the store. The town had a church, school, several homes and a saloon. Barham's father was a foreman on one of the wheat ranches of Dr. Hugh J. Glenn in Glenn County.

Terrain and local landmarks

The area is relatively flat land along the banks of the Sacramento River. A local landmark is the Glenn Post Office on SR45 just north of SR162. Farther north still along SR45 is the local Mennonite Church as there is a modest population of

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farming families in this area. Much of the area is agricultural land under cultivation. West of town, there is a natural gas well field along SR162 between Glenn and Willows.

Politics

In the state legislature, Glenn is in , and in . Federally, Glenn is in .

Sources

* U.S. Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database. * Map: U.S. Geological Survey, Glenn, California, 7.5-minute Quadrangle, 1969. * Map: ''Road Map of California: 1958'', (Sacramento, California: Department of Public Works; Division of Highways, 1958). * Map: State of California, Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, District 6, Map 620.

References

External links

* tp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/oil/maps/dist6/620/Map620.pdf Gas and oil well map of area. {{authority control Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Glenn County, California