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Do you know of Oto ???

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

Our sources for Oto (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 Oto other than they indicate that Oto would be found somewhere in Klickitat County, Washington.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1892.

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 Oto ...

We found two communities that share the name Oto.

Within Washington, the name Oto is unique.

Beyond Washington, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Woodbury County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Oto [Woodbury County].
    • Missouri
      • Stone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Oto [Stone County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oto ...

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

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 Oto - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Klickitat 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 Klickitat County.

Camp DraperHartland
Canyon 
CentrevilleLuna
Cleodell 
CliffsMount Brook
Columbus 
CrimeaNorth Dallas
  
Draper SpringPleasant
  
FuldaScott
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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