Fenn is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

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, United States. It is located on

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on the

Camas Prairie Camas prairies are found in several different geographical areas in the western United States, and are named for the native perennial camas ('' Camassia''). The culturally and scientifically significant of these areas lie within Idaho and Montana. ...

, northwest of Grangeville and south of Cottonwood. Fenn had a

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with ZIP code Originally Tharp, it was named in 1915 (or earlier) after the Fenn family. Stephen S. Fenn (1820–92) arrived in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

from

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in 1862 with his wife and four children. He was an early settler, attorney, administrator, speaker of

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legislature, and a territorial delegate to

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. His son, Major Frank A. Fenn also of many professions, was the speaker of the first state legislature. Frank's son Lloyd (1884–1953) also served in the An earlier settlement a few miles north, Denver, was mostly abandoned after the

Camas Prairie Railroad Camas Prairie Railroad Company was a short line railroad in northern Idaho jointly owned and operated by Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific. Parts of the former railroad are now operated by the Great Northwest Railroad and the BG&CM Rai ...

bypassed it. A grain elevator was constructed in Fenn in 1918, and an upgrade was added in 1946, served by the railroad until the abandonment of its Second Subdivision line to Grangeville in late 2000. Fenn's population was 25 in 1960.

Climate

According to the

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system, Fenn has an

oceanic climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen climate classification, Köppen classification represented as ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of co ...

, abbreviated "Cfb" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Fenn was on June 19, 2021, while the coldest temperature recorded was on January 10, 1949.

Notable people

* James Henry Meyer, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, from 1969 to 1987

References

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