Denio, NV

Denio is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, Nevada, along the Oregon state line in the United States. The 2020 census counted 34 residents. 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. Humboldt County is in the service area of Great Basin College. A newcomer can read Denio through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Denio comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. 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.