Denio is a census-designated place (CDP) in Humboldt County, Nevada, along the Oregon state line in the United States. The Denio post office was originally north of the state line in Harney County, Oregon, 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; 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. Recreational activities in the Denio area include bird watching, photography, off road vehicle use, fishing, recreational black opal mining,

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, hunting, visiting the hot springs, and camping on the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge. Denio Junction is about south of Denio, at the junction of State Route 140 and State Route 292. Denio Junction's motel provides gas, food, groceries, and lodging. Denio Junction Airport is a two-runway graded airstrip. There is no scheduled air or ground transportation serving this field, which is a short walk from Denio Junction.

Demographics

History

Denio was named after Aaron Denio, who settled in the area in 1885. He was born in 1824 in Illinois and traveled to California in 1860. He worked in milling, mining, and farming in Nevada and California for 25 years before settling near the Oregon-Nevada border. He died at Denio in 1907. The Denio post office was established in Oregon in 1888. 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. The post office was moved and reopened in Nevada in 1950 for Nevada addresses, not Oregon. The Old Diamond Inn

Education

Public education in Denio (on the Nevada side) is administered by the

Humboldt County School District The Humboldt County School District is a public school district serving K−12 education in Humboldt County, Nevada, in the northwestern part of the state. Its headquarters are in Winnemucca. History The district had 1,547 students in the 19 ...

, which operates the Denio School, a three room kindergarten-

eighth grade Eighth grade (or grade eight in some regions) is the eighth post-kindergarten year of formal education in the US. The eighth grade is the ninth school year, the second, third, fourth, or final year of middle school, or the second and/or final ye ...

(K-8) school. It is a two-room schoolhouse. The school lacks a full service cafeteria. Its nature, as of 2004, allows teachers to have informal, flexible scheduling.
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from Newspapers.com. The enrollment in December 2004 was the same number as the 1963-1964 figure. Denio, Nevada students of high school age may attend Humboldt County School District's Albert M. Lowry High School in Winnemucca, Nevada; parents with high school aged children may, while their children are high school aged, move to Winnemucca for the duration of the students' stays. Students may also attend

Crane Union High School Crane Union High School is a public high school in Crane, Oregon, United States. It is a boarding school that serves students from a large geographic area. Its district is known as the Harney County Union High School District 1J, and covers much ...

, a public boarding high school in

Crane, Oregon Crane is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States, northeast of Malheur Lake on Oregon Route 78. Its population was 129 at the 2010 census. History Crane was named for the prominent local fea ...

. The Oregon side across from Denio, Nevada is, in 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).
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/ref> The Denio, Oregon community was historically served by Crane Union, with the high school taking in several Basque Oregonians from there. Denio has a

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, a branch of the Humboldt County Library. Harney County is not in a community college district but has a "contract out of district" (COD) with Treasure Valley Community College. TVCC operates the Burns Outreach Center in Burns.

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