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Tucked into the western Minnesota plains, Tenney is a place whose character is shaped by the broad, level farmland of the Red River Valley. This tiny Traverse County community stands close to the North Dakota line in a region formed by the bed of ancient glacial Lake Agassiz. Fields and drainage ditches give the terrain an open, geometric structure, while local roads connect scattered farmsteads with nearby service towns. Agriculture remains the defining land use across this part of Minnesota, where fertile soils and long, straight horizons have shaped settlement patterns. Tenney belongs to the network of small communities that gives the valley its distinctly rural character.
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Few communities in western Minnesota have a history as closely tied to railroad expansion as Tenney. Platted in 1885 as rail tracks reached Traverse County, it was named for railroad official A. A. Tenney and incorporated in 1901. Near the South Dakota border, the town sits in the broad Red River Valley, where level former-lakebed terrain has long supported grain farming. The 2020 census recorded five residents, giving this incorporated city an exceptionally small scale. Browse other webcams across Minnesota’s Red River Valley to place Tenney in a wider geographic context.
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