Chilo, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45112. It stands on Patterson Run. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 499 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChilo grew from 63 to 71 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 63 | |
| 2020 | 71 | +8 (+13%) |
Then and now
1931 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1931 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:62500
- 1931 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
50 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Franklin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 73 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 73 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chilo between 1896 and 1974: 59 Animalia, 12 Fungi, 1 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Bureau of Fisheries, Culberson W. L. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Geothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811) | 1896 | A.M Bradford | Bradford |
![]() | Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Point Pleasant |
![]() | Plethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Point Pleasant |
![]() | Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852 | 1927 | J. Galloway | Big Run, (L. Miami Riv. Basin) |
![]() | Micropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
![]() | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
![]() | Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
![]() | Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul. | 1934 | Jones Frances | Moscow |
![]() | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | Indian Creek, On SE Edge Of Monroe Township |
| Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1939 | Lonsing, A. | Dayton. Woods. | |
| Orconectes juvenilis (Hagen, 1870) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Ohio River off Boudes Ferry, Lewis Township |
All 73 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chilo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howerton Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chilo in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilo | $30,000 | The village of Chilo experienced numerous trees downed from straight-line winds and also some structural damage to buildings and homes on Market Street, Washington Street and Warren Street, as well as the Chilo Lock 34 Park area. Based on the damage, the winds were estimated to be in the 70 to 80 mph range. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilo | $12,000 | An estimated thirty trees were knocked down in the Crooked Run Nature Preserve. Numerous large limbs and several sixteen inch diameter sycamore trees were downed along the north bank of the Ohio River. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilo | $3,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Chilo | - | High water was reported along US Route 52 between State Route 222 and State Route 133. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rural | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Stringtown | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Felicity | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Neville | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Utopia | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cedron | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Moscow | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Olive | 7.0 miles | 12 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Chilo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q544633 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056800. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






















