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.
Our sources for Otto (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 Otto other than they indicate that Otto would be found somewhere in Abbeville County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1894.
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 Otto ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Otto.
Within South Carolina, the name Otto is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, 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].
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Otto [Union County].
- Illinois
- 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
- 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
- Tennessee
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Otto [Roane County].
- Wyoming
- Arkansas
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:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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 Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Abbeville 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 Abbeville County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |