Do you know of Othello ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Othello. 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 Othello.

Our sources for Othello (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Othello other than they indicate that Othello would be found somewhere in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1864 and closed  in 1902.

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.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Othello ...

We found four communities that share the name Othello.

Within Minnesota, the name Othello is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Othello.
  • New Jersey
    • Cumberland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Othello [Cumberland County].
  • North Carolina
    • Ashe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Othello [Ashe County].
  • Washington
    • Adams County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Othello [Adams County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Othello ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Olmsted County ...

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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 Olmsted County.