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Chili, Wisconsin
Census-designated place
County Y runs through town
Chili
Coordinates: 44°37′37″N 90°21′23″W / 44.62694°N 90.35639°W / 44.62694; -90.35639
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Clark
Town	Fremont
Area
• Total	1.301 sq mi (3.37 km²)
• Land	1.287 sq mi (3.33 km²)
• Water	0.014 sq mi (0.04 km²)
Elevation	1,234 ft (376 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	226
• Density	170/sq mi (67/km²)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	54420
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1563021^[1]

Chili is an unincorporated census-designated place in the Town of Fremont in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States. Chili is west-southwest of Marshfield. Chili has a post office with ZIP code 54420.^[2] As of the 2010 census, its population was 226.^[3]

History

Around the year 1880 the Chicago and North Western Railway built through this area in south-east Clark County to take care of local sawmills. There was a sawmill about a mile east of where the railroad had put in a siding called Cedarhurst. Another such sawmill was built at the present-day CDP of Chili, and grew to be a rather extensive operation. One blistering, cold day during the winter of 1881, the railroad officials came here for the purpose of choosing a name for the then-hamlet. It was so wintry cold they did not want to step out of the train, it was then that one of them is supposed to have said, "Let's call this stop Chili because it is really chilly here."^[4] On another account, the community is also said to be named after the country Chile, in South America.^[5]

A post office called Chili has been in operation since 1892.^[6]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chili, Wisconsin
^ ZIP Code Lookup Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
^ Gard, Robert E. (2015). The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names (2nd ed.). Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-87020-707-5.
^ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 170.
^ "Clark County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 3, 2015.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Clark County, Wisconsin, United States
County seat: Neillsville
Cities	Abbotsford‡ Colby‡ Greenwood Loyal Neillsville Owen Stanley‡ Thorp
Villages	Curtiss Dorchester‡ Granton Unity‡ Withee
Towns	Beaver Butler Colby Dewhurst Eaton Foster Fremont Grant Green Grove Hendren Hewett Hixon Hoard Levis Longwood Loyal Lynn Mayville Mead Mentor Pine Valley Reseburg Seif Sherman Sherwood Thorp Unity Warner Washburn Weston Withee Worden York
CDPs	Chili Humbird
Unincorporated communities	Columbia Longwood Lynn Nevins Reseburg Riplinger Sherwood Shortville Sidney Spokeville Tioga Veefkind Willard
Ghost towns	Hemlock Kurth Maple Works Trow Worden
Indian reservation	Ho-Chunk Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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