Rautio is a
former municipality, now a small
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
of
Kalajoki,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bot ...
. It was consolidated to Kalajoki in 1973.
History
The name ''Rautio'' comes from a word meaning "blacksmith". Rautio has existed at least since 1547, at the time it only had three farms. It was a part of the
Kalajoki parish.
Rautio became a chapel community in 1826. In 1912, it became a separate parish and municipality.
Rautio was merged back into Kalajoki in 1973.
People born in Rautio
*
Leonard Typpö (1868 – 1922)
*
Elias Simojoki (1899 – 1940)
References
Former municipalities of Finland
Kalajoki
Villages in Finland
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