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Do you know of Otto ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Otto. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Otto.

We found mention of Otto as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chaffee County, Colorado.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Communities Also Named Otto ...

We found 25 communities that share the name Otto.

Within Colorado, the name Otto is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Faulkner County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Otto [Faulkner County].
    • Georgia
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Otto [Union County].
    • Illinois
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Otto [Fulton County].
      • Kankakee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Otto [Kankakee County].
    • Indiana
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Otto [Clark County].
    • Kansas
      • Cowley County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Otto [Cowley County].
      • Marshall County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Otto [Marshall County].
      • Nemaha County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Otto [Nemaha County].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Otto.
    • Minnesota
      • Beltrami County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Otto [Beltrami County].
    • Missouri
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Otto [Jefferson County].
    • Nebraska
      • Webster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Otto [Webster County].
    • New Mexico
      • Torrance County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Otto [Torrance County].
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Otto [Union County].
    • New York
      • Cattaraugus County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Otto [Cattaraugus County].
    • North Carolina
      • Macon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Otto [Macon County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Otto [Allegheny County].
      • Northumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Otto [Northumberland County].
    • South Carolina
      • Abbeville County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Otto [Abbeville County].
    • Tennessee
      • Pickett County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Otto [Pickett County].
    • Texas
      • Falls County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Otto [Falls County].
      • Hardin County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Otto [Hardin County].
    • West Virginia
      • Roane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Otto [Roane County].
    • Wyoming
      • Big Horn County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Otto [Big Horn County].
      • Laramie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Otto [Laramie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Otto ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Otto:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Otto - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Chaffee County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Chaffee County.

Adobe ParkLady Murphy
Arena 
 McGee
Brown CanonMidway Tank
 Midway
CalumetMissouri Park
CascadeMount Princeton
Centreville 
ChaffeePoncha Junction
Charcoal 
Cottonwood SpringsRaspberry
  
DivideSand Park
 Schwanders
FisherShauano Vista
 Swissvale
Gray's 
 Thompson's
Harps 
Haywood SpringsUte Heights
Hecla Junction 
HigginsVenice
  
KeeneYale
  

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Otto could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.









 

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