Denio, Nevada
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summit Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89404. The Survey maps it on the Denio quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,207 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDenio fell from 47 to 34 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 34 | -13 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1886 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Denio quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Denio quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
- 1990 USGS Denio quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Denio between 1995 and 2019, burning about 4,585 acres in total. 15 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 1995 | Natural | 1,126 acres | Winnemucca District Office | DENIO |
| 8 August 2019 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Burns District | 9078 |
| 7 August 1997 | Natural | 284 acres | Winnemucca District Office | ALBERSON |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Burns District | COLONY CRK |
| 4 August 1999 | Natural | 1,296 acres | Winnemucca District Office | DENIO N |
| 30 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Burns District | COLONY |
| 30 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Burns District | VAN HORN |
| 29 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Winnemucca District Office | JUNCTION |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 32 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Denio: 14 prospects, 10 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cowden Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1894 | |
| Crystal Quartz | Quartz | Unknown | ||
| Denio Basin Group | Gold, Silver, Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Double Link | Mercury, Copper | Occurrence | 1940 | |
| Double Link Prospect | Mercury, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Hall Mine | Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Boron-Borates, Barium-Barite, Manganese, Chromium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1930, 1935 | |
| Hall Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Clipper Group | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Cowden Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Denio Mountain Iron Prospect | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denio in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Debris Flow | Denio | - | A preliminary report reveals 4-8 feet of debris across state route 140 near Continental Lake approaching Denio Junction. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denio Junction | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Overton (historical) | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Dyke | 28.8 miles | 19 | |
| Quinn River Crossing | 30.4 miles | 19 | |
| Varyville (historical) | 35.5 miles | 16 | |
| Happy Creek Station | 39.0 miles | 17 | |
| Cordero | 43.7 miles | 16 | |
| McDermitt | 48.6 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Denio | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459632 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845425. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







