Denio is a

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(CDP) in Humboldt County,

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, along the

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state line in the United States. The Denio post office was originally north of the state line in

Harney County, Oregon Harney County is one of the List of counties in Oregon, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 7,495, making it the sixth-least populous county in Oregon. The county seat i ...

, but the residents moved the building into Nevada in the mid-20th century. The population of the CDP, which is entirely in

, 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

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mining, rockhounding, hunting, visiting the

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s, 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 gasoline, 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.

History

Denio was named after Aaron Denio, who settled in the area in 1885. He was born in 1824 in

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and traveled to

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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

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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.

Education

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in Denio (on the Nevada side) is administered by the Humboldt County School District, which operates the Denio School, a three-room

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- eighth grade (K-8) school. It is, more or less, a two-room schoolhouse, and lacks a full-service

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. By design, as per circa 2004, the school functions to allow teachers more informal, flexible scheduling.
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. "a public boarding school in Crane, Ore." automatically refers to Crane Union HS, as it is the only boarding school in Crane. There were 20 students in the 1963-1964 school year;
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. likewise, enrollment in December 2004 was also 20 students. , Denio, Nevada students of high school age may attend Humboldt County School District's Albert M. Lowry High School (in

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); 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 students there. High schoolers may also attend

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, a public boarding high school in

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. The Oregon side (across from Denio, Nevada) is, as of 2020, zoned to South Harney School District 33 (

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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. Humboldt County is in the service area of Great Basin College. That college maintains the GBC Center in Winnemucca. Harney County is not in a

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district but has a "contract out of district" (COD) with Treasure Valley Community College. TVCC operates the Burns Outreach Center in

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Demographics

Healthcare

In 2005 the hospital, Harney District Hospital in

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, provided a traveling doctor in a mobile trailer which covered southern parts of Harney County; the trailer also stopped in Denio, Nevada.

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- Includes information on the Denio School {{authority control Census-designated places in Humboldt County, Nevada Census-designated places in Nevada Unincorporated communities in Harney County, Oregon 1888 establishments in Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon 1888 establishments in Nevada Populated places established in 1888