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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Denio Denio | |
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]
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]
Public 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 the last twenty years, 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 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] |
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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2020 | 34 | — | |
U.S. Decennial Census[21] |
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