Denio is a census-designated place (CDP) in Humboldt County, Nevada, along the Oregon state line in the United States.[3] The Denio post office was originally north of the state line in Harney County, Oregon,[4] but the residents moved the building into Nevada in the mid-20th century. The population of the CDP, which is entirely in Nevada, was 47 at the 2010 census;[5] additional development considered to be Denio extends into Oregon. The CDP includes a post office, a community center, a library, and the Diamond Inn Bar, the center of the town's social life.[6] Recreational activities in the Denio area include bird watching, photography, off-road vehicle use, fishing, recreational black opal mining, rockhounding, hunting, visiting the hot springs, and camping on the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge.[6]
Denio, Nevada | |
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| Coordinates: 41°59′24″N 118°37′59″W / 41.99000°N 118.63306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| States | Nevada (CDP) Oregon (outside CDP) |
| Counties | Humboldt (CDP) Harney (outside CDP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.46 sq mi (1.19 km2) |
| • Land | 0.46 sq mi (1.19 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 4,206 ft (1,282 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 34 |
| • Density | 74.24/sq mi (28.65/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 89404 |
| FIPS code | 32-18500 |
| GNIS feature ID | 845425[2] |
Denio Junction is about 3 miles (5 km) south of Denio, at the junction of State Route 140 and State Route 292.[7] Denio Junction's motel provides gas, food, groceries, and lodging.[6] Denio Junction Airport is a two-runway graded airstrip.[8] There is no scheduled air or ground transportation serving this field, which is a short walk from Denio Junction.[8]
History
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Denio was named after Aaron Denio, who settled in the area in 1885.[9] He was born in 1824 in Illinois and traveled to California in 1860.[9] He worked in milling, mining, and farming in Nevada and California for 25 years before settling near the Oregon-Nevada border.[9] He died at Denio in 1907.[9] The Denio post office was established in Oregon in 1888.[9] After World War II a number of businesses relocated south of the state line to take advantage of Nevada's lack of an income tax and more liberal liquor, gambling, and prostitution laws.[9] The post office was moved and reopened in Nevada in 1950 for Nevada addresses, not Oregon.[9]
Education
editPublic education in Denio (on the Nevada side) is administered by the Humboldt County School District, which operates the Denio School, a three-room kindergarten-eighth grade (K-8) school.[6] It is, more or less, a two-room schoolhouse, and lacks a full-service cafeteria. By design, as per circa 2004, the school functions to allow teachers more informal, flexible scheduling.[10] There were 20 students in the 1963-1964 school year;[11] likewise, enrollment in December 2004 was also 20 students.[10]
As of 2004[update], Denio, Nevada students of high school age may attend Humboldt County School District's Albert M. Lowry High School (in Winnemucca, Nevada); additionally, parents of high school-aged children who decide to attend Lowry High School may relocate to Winnemucca for the duration of their children’s time as a student there. High schoolers may also attend Crane Union High School, a public boarding high school in Crane, Oregon.[10] The Oregon side (across from Denio, Nevada) is, as of 2020, zoned to South Harney School District 33 (Fields School, K-8) and Harney County Union High School District 1J (the district for Crane Union).[12] The Denio, Oregon, community was historically served by Crane Union, with the high school taking in several Basque Oregonians from there.[13]
Denio has a public library, a branch of the Humboldt County Library.[14]
Humboldt County is in the service area of Great Basin College.[15] That college maintains the GBC Center in Winnemucca.[16] Harney County is not in a community college district but has a "contract out of district" (COD) with Treasure Valley Community College.[17] TVCC operates the Burns Outreach Center in Burns.[18]
Climate
edit| Climate data for Denio, Nevada (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1951–2017) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 67 (19) |
76 (24) |
78 (26) |
93 (34) |
97 (36) |
105 (41) |
107 (42) |
107 (42) |
103 (39) |
97 (36) |
72 (22) |
64 (18) |
107 (42) |
| Mean maximum °F (°C) | 53.8 (12.1) |
58.9 (14.9) |
69.0 (20.6) |
80.1 (26.7) |
88.5 (31.4) |
95.1 (35.1) |
101.1 (38.4) |
100.2 (37.9) |
92.3 (33.5) |
83.1 (28.4) |
66.2 (19.0) |
53.9 (12.2) |
102.1 (38.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 43.6 (6.4) |
48.7 (9.3) |
57.6 (14.2) |
64.1 (17.8) |
73.6 (23.1) |
83.8 (28.8) |
94.3 (34.6) |
92.9 (33.8) |
83.2 (28.4) |
68.6 (20.3) |
52.6 (11.4) |
42.4 (5.8) |
67.1 (19.5) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 32.7 (0.4) |
36.4 (2.4) |
43.2 (6.2) |
47.8 (8.8) |
56.2 (13.4) |
64.7 (18.2) |
73.9 (23.3) |
72.2 (22.3) |
62.9 (17.2) |
51.2 (10.7) |
39.5 (4.2) |
32.0 (0.0) |
51.1 (10.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 21.7 (−5.7) |
24.0 (−4.4) |
28.7 (−1.8) |
31.5 (−0.3) |
38.8 (3.8) |
45.7 (7.6) |
53.5 (11.9) |
51.5 (10.8) |
42.6 (5.9) |
33.8 (1.0) |
26.4 (−3.1) |
21.6 (−5.8) |
35.0 (1.7) |
| Mean minimum °F (°C) | 3.5 (−15.8) |
8.2 (−13.2) |
15.2 (−9.3) |
17.6 (−8.0) |
23.8 (−4.6) |
32.8 (0.4) |
40.4 (4.7) |
38.3 (3.5) |
27.6 (−2.4) |
17.1 (−8.3) |
9.3 (−12.6) |
2.1 (−16.6) |
−2.9 (−19.4) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −21 (−29) |
−21 (−29) |
0 (−18) |
11 (−12) |
14 (−10) |
22 (−6) |
29 (−2) |
26 (−3) |
17 (−8) |
−2 (−19) |
−4 (−20) |
−25 (−32) |
−25 (−32) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.73 (19) |
0.82 (21) |
0.98 (25) |
1.00 (25) |
1.36 (35) |
0.76 (19) |
0.25 (6.4) |
0.30 (7.6) |
0.29 (7.4) |
0.65 (17) |
0.77 (20) |
1.19 (30) |
9.10 (231) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 5.7 (14) |
2.3 (5.8) |
1.3 (3.3) |
1.5 (3.8) |
0.1 (0.25) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.6 (1.5) |
1.0 (2.5) |
7.3 (19) |
19.8 (50) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 5.4 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 6.7 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 6.2 | 56.8 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 9.1 |
| Source: NOAA (mean maxima/minima 1981–2010)[19][20] | |||||||||||||
Demographics
edit| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 34 | — | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[21] | |||
See also
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References
edit- ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Denio, Nevada
- ^ "Denio". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. December 12, 1980. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
- ^ "Denio Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 1, 1994. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Denio CDP, Nevada". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Denio, Nevada". travelNevada.com. Nevada Commission on Tourism. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
- ^ "Denio Junction". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. December 12, 1980. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0875952772.
- ^ a b c Roccapriore, Carla (December 12, 2004). "Tiny-town students visit biggest little city". Reno Gazette-Journal. pp. 1C, 2C. - Clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com. "a public boarding school in Crane, Ore." automatically refers to Crane Union HS, as it is the only boarding school in Crane.
- ^ "Humboldt School Enrollment Gains". Reno Gazette-Journal. September 11, 1963. p. 2. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
- ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Harney County, OR" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 15, 2022. - Text list
- ^ "They 'Live In' at Crane". Sunday Journal Magazine. November 12, 1950. Archived from the original on October 10, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
- ^ "Nevada Public Libraries". PublicLibraries.com. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
- ^ "Data and Information". Great Basin College. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ^ "GBC Center in Winnemucca". Great Basin College. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
5490 Kluncy Canyon Road Winnemucca, NV 89445
- ^ "Oregon Community Colleges and Community College Districts" (PDF). Oregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ "Burns Outreach Center". Treasure Valley Community College. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ "NOWData – NOAA Online Weather Data". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
- ^ "Summary of Monthly Normals 1991–2020". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
Further reading
edit- Kirchmeier, Mark (June 16, 1979). "Denio never scared Reno, Vegas". The Oregonian.
- "They moved the town". Corvallis Gazette-Times. Corvallis, Oregon. May 26, 1977. p. 10. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Text Detail A. Right caption details.
External links
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- "Denio, Nevada". Archived from the original on July 24, 2008.
- Images of Denio from Panoramio
- Images of Denio from Flickr
- Humboldt County School District Rural Remote Schools - Includes information on the Denio School