Explore Chilo, Ohio, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chilo, Ohio. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Ohio or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Chilo.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Chilo |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Clermont County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.793125 |
| Longitude | -84.140766 |
| Population | 71 |
| Density | 135.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 45112 |
| Area Code | 513 |
| County Seat | Batavia |
| School District | Felicity-Franklin Local School District |
Chilo commands a quiet prominence where the land softens into the riverine patterns of the Ohio Valley. It lies 3.7 miles west-southwest of Franklin Township Clermont County, OH (from Franklin Township Clermont County, OH: bearing 243°T), and is situated 5.0 miles south-southeast of Washington Township Clermont County. The Crooked Run carves a modest, persistent path through the terrain, its banks marking the threshold where the heavy, humid air of the bottomlands meets the cooling shadows cast by the distant silhouette of Fruit Ridge. In the stillness of late afternoon, the light filters through the dense canopy of local hardwoods to illuminate the grounds of Chilo Lock Park #34, where the remnants of engineering brickwork and iron lock gates stand as silent observers of a landscape defined by its inland isolation. Beyond the immediate reach of the park, the horizon is shaped by the subtle, persistent undulations of the regional topography, a place where the earth seems to hold its breath in the long, gray light of the waning day.
Chilo preserves the echoes of an era when the river served as the primary artery for trade and transit, its economic pulse once synchronized with the movement of cargo and the labor of those who maintained the navigation infrastructure. While the frantic pace of modern industry has largely receded, the legacy of this working history remains imprinted on the local character, a quiet resilience found in the architecture and the deliberate, unhurried pace of the residents. Life here is measured by the seasonal shift toward the interior, far removed from any maritime influence, with the nearby waters of Kincaid Lake providing a still, reflective reprieve from the daily routine. Residents often look toward Opossum Hollow to gauge the coming weather, a habit born of a long-standing intimacy with the immediate environment that defines the identity of Chilo more thoroughly than any external mark of progress.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chilo, Ohio. Coordinates: 38.793125, -84.140766. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Chilo includes the ZIP code (45112), telephone area code (513), county seat of Clermont County (Batavia), and school district assignment (Felicity-Franklin Local School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |