Menlo is a small city in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States. The population was 480 at the 2020 census.
History
thumb|left|Menlo, circa 1900
Menlo was platted in 1883. A post office called Menlo has been in operation since 1886. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Menlo as a town in 1903. The city's founder, Captain Andrew Lawrence, named it after Menlo Park, New Jersey, in honor of inventor Thomas Edison.
Geography
Menlo is located at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in western Chattooga County. It lies just over a mile east of the Alabama border. Georgia State Route 48 runs through the center of town, leading east to Summerville, the Chattooga County seat, and northwest to Cloudland atop Lookout Mountain. SR 337 leads northeast through the Broomtown Valley to LaFayette.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Menlo has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
thumb|Menlo City Hall
As of the census
