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Scio is a village in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and its name is pronounced 'SY-oh.'

Scio was originally called New Market, and under that name it was platted in 1852.

The village took its present name from Scio College, which arrived in 1867 when the Rural Seminary moved to the village from Carroll County; the name passed from the college to the post office and then to the town itself.

Scio College operated in the village until 1911, when it merged with Mount Union College in Alliance and the Scio campus closed.

Oil was discovered near Scio in 1898, and the quiet college town briefly became a boom town whose population reportedly swelled to around 5,000 before the boom faded within about two years.

The Scio Pottery Company became a village fixture after potter Lew Reese bought a shuttered china plant in 1932; after an uninsured fire gutted the plant in 1947, the community helped him rebuild it, and the pottery operated until 1985.

Scio is the midpoint of the Conotton Creek Trail, an 11.4-mile paved rail-trail along Conotton Creek used for bicycling, walking, and skating.

The village had 673 residents at the 2020 census, down from 763 people in 324 households at the 2010 census, all within just 0.56 square miles.

Students in Scio attend the Harrison Hills City School District.