Tenney, Minnesota

Tenney is an unincorporated community and former city in section 28 of Campbell Township, Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States.

The only remnant of Tenney is a grain elevator along the tracks on the south side of town.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2), all land.

According to an unpublished town history written in the mid-1980s, the city's population peaked at about 200 in 1910.

[9] Electricity arrived in Tenney in 1914, through a franchise granted to Otter Tail Power Company.

[9] After 1910 steady population decline was driven by the lack of significant population in outlying areas, migration to larger urban centers, and the absence of dynamic economic factors to generate wealth.

As local establishments burned down or went out of business they were not replaced, and finally the post office was discontinued in 1980 when the census bureau pegged Tenney's population at 19.

The last commercial building remaining in town was the former James Bigsby general store (later owned by G. A. Klugman), which also housed the post office until its closing in 1980.

In late June 2011, residents of Tenney voted 2 to 1 to dissolve the town and have it become part of Campbell Township.

It is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the junction of Minnesota Highway 55 and U.S. Route 75.

The Tenney Fire Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was a small wood-frame building with a bell tower and flag mast, built in 1904.

In 2003, 20 million bushels of grain were trucked into Tenney from other elevators and shipped out by rail.

The elevator is served by the Soo Line Railroad, which is the United States arm of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Tenney Fire Hall
Map of Minnesota highlighting Wilkin County