Chrome, California

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in California, United States}}

{{for|the race horse|California Chrome}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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Chrome (formerly Crome{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}) is an unincorporated community in Glenn County, California. It is located {{convert|9.01|mi|km|0}} north of Elk Creek,{{California's Geographic Names|212}} 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 that was mined in the area. The local chromium mill closed in the 1940s when the major mines were exhausted.{{cite news

| title = Shutdown of chrome mine is expected.

| newspaper = Colusa Sun-Herald

| location = Colusa, CA

| pages = 1

| language = English

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| date = 10 Dec 1943

| url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/993920313/?terms=chrome&match=1

| access-date = 26 Oct 2023 }}

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.{{cite news

| last = Green

| first = Chal

| title = School to be restored.

| newspaper = Chico Enterprise-Record

| location = Chico, CA

| pages = 7A

| language = English

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| date = 16 May 1978

| url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/682097027/?terms=newville&match=1

| access-date = 26 Oct 2023 }}