Dent, Idaho

Dent is an unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho.[1]

History

A post office called Dent was established in 1896, and remained in operation until 1954.[2] One Mr. Dent, an early postmaster, gave the community his last name.[3]

gollark: Though I'm not certain human inspiration is actually necessary.
gollark: If you have less of an incentive to do art, much human inspiration will be lost and not converted to art.
gollark: Yes
gollark: Without incentives for arts to be artinated we would have fewer arts.
gollark: We pay artists as an incentive to artinate arts.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dent, Idaho
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 32.



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