Unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States
Photo: Benjamin Tighe (Brain Rodeo at en.wikipedia), Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Tenney is a former city with a population of six, in Wilkin County, Northwestern Minnesota. Tenney billed itself as the smallest statutory city in America. Until 2011, it was a fully incorporated municipality which levied taxes on its residents and nonresident landowners.
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this is a small wood frame building with a bell tower and flag mast, built to house the town's two hand-pulled chemical fire engines. The rearmost part of the building also contained the town jail. This building is privately owned, but the city is hoping to reacquire it and perform important repairs. According the National Register's Inventory-Nomination Form, the Fire Hall is significant for the following reasons: "Government functions were often centered in towns, [including] places as small as Tenney with its Fire Hall..." and "Though of simple metal-sided, frame construction, the diminutive Tenney Fire Hall... is a visual landmark in the small town."
Visitors can sign the town's guestbook. This building used to be the town's only church, and was purchased by the city at a cost of $11 in 1999.
The Co-op has its primary rail terminal in Tenney. In 2003, 20 million bushels of grain were trucked into Tenney from other elevators, and shipped out by rail. At that time it was estimated that in 2004 this figure would rise to 32 million bushels. The elevator is served by the Soo Line Railroad.
Tenney is about a mile east of the intersection of US Highway 75 and Minnesota Highway 55.
Read in the guideTenney has only five streets; three running north-south and two running east-west. The town is easily walkable. The downtown "business district" is confined to one street, one block long.
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