Glenn is an
unincorporated community
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in
Glenn County,
California
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.
It lies at an elevation of .
The town is located on the
Sacramento River, at the intersection of
State Route 45 and
State Route 162. It is about east of
Interstate 5
Interstate 5 (I-5) is the main north–south Interstate Highway System, Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, running largely parallel to the Pacific coast of the contiguous U.S. from Mexico to Canada. It travels thro ...
and
Willows 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
area code 530
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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
postmaster. 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
Mennonite
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of ...
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.
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Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Glenn County, California