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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.

Denio within Humboldt County

Population over time

2 figures

Denio 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.

YearPeople Change
201047
202034-13 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 1995

Regional 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 1995Natural1,126 acresWinnemucca District OfficeDENIO
8 August 2019Natural1.3 acresBurns District9078
7 August 1997Natural284 acresWinnemucca District OfficeALBERSON
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictCOLONY CRK
4 August 1999Natural1,296 acresWinnemucca District OfficeDENIO N
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBurns DistrictCOLONY
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBurns DistrictVAN HORN
29 August 2017Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeJUNCTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cowden MineGold, CopperPast Producer1894
Crystal QuartzQuartzUnknown
Denio Basin GroupGold, Silver, MercuryProspect
Double LinkMercury, CopperOccurrence1940
Double Link ProspectMercury, CopperProspect
Hall MineGold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Boron-Borates, Barium-Barite, Manganese, Chromium, MolybdenumPast Producer1930, 1935
Hall MineGold, Copper, Silver, ManganesePast Producer
Clipper GroupGold, SilverPast Producer
Cowden MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Denio Mountain Iron ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Debris FlowDenio-A preliminary report reveals 4-8 feet of debris across state route 140 near Continental Lake approaching Denio Junction.

Every storm recorded in Humboldt County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Denio Junction2.7 miles19
Overton (historical)4.0 miles19
Dyke28.8 miles19
Quinn River Crossing30.4 miles19
Varyville (historical)35.5 miles16
Happy Creek Station39.0 miles17
Cordero43.7 miles16
McDermitt48.6 miles17

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 DenioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459632The 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.