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Chiloquin is a city in Klamath County, Oregon, about 26 miles north of Klamath Falls and just east of U.S. Route 97.

The 2020 census counted 767 people and 301 households in Chiloquin.

The city was incorporated on March 9, 1926, and is described as the only city ever incorporated on an Indian reservation.

Its name is the pioneer spelling of the Klamath family name Chaloquin, borne by a Klamath chief alive at the time of the 1864 treaty, and in the Klamath language the place is mbosaksawaas, meaning 'flint place'.

The Williamson River flows north-south through the city, where it receives the Sprague River from the east.

Chiloquin covers 0.82 square miles, all land, at an elevation of about 4,180 feet, near the Winema National Forest and Agency Lake.

The town began to develop around 1910 when the railroad was built north from Klamath Falls, and as a rough lumber boom town it earned the nickname 'Little Chicago'.

The town's last lumber mill closed in 1988, leaving widespread unemployment, and ranching in the outlying areas remains an industry.

The Klamath Tribes' Kla-Mo-Ya Casino opened in July 1997, and a Sleep Inn & Suites opened on the same property in the fall of 2019.

Chiloquin is home to the Train Mountain Miniature Railroad, which the Guinness Book of World Records calls the longest hobby railway system in the world, with a railway museum and about 25 miles of track.