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Cairo is a village in Allen County, Ohio, and despite the Egyptian spelling its name is pronounced 'KAIR-oh' by locals.

Cairo was originally called West Cairo, and under that name it was platted in 1848; West Cairo was incorporated on April 12, 1875.

A post office named West Cairo opened in 1852, and the community did not shorten its name to Cairo until 1922.

The 2020 census counted 517 residents in Cairo, nearly unchanged from 524 in 2010.

In 2010 the village had 524 people living in 198 households, an average of about 2.6 people per home.

The whole village covers just 0.23 square miles in the middle of Allen County farm country, within the Lima metropolitan area.

Cairo sits at the crossroads of U.S. Route 30 and State Route 65, and its Main Street was part of the Lincoln Highway, America's first coast-to-coast road; when U.S. 30 was widened to four lanes the highway was rerouted about half a mile south, but the old Lincoln Highway still runs through town.

The log building at the northeast corner of Main Street and Route 65, known locally as the Lincoln Log Cabin, was built in 1848 by B. D. Hartzog, who ran a general store there.

Cairo is the hometown of Robert Franklin Jones, a lawyer who represented Ohio in the U.S. Congress from 1939 to 1947.

Cairo once had its own school district, but after consolidation into the Bath Local School District in the 1970s its children have attended Bath schools.