Do you know of Otter ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Otter. 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 Otter.<1>

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

Communities Also Named Otter ...

We found seven communities that share the name Otter.

Within Michigan, the name Otter is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, five are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - La Salle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Otter [La Salle County].
- Kentucky
  - Larue County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Otter [Larue County].
- Montana
  - Powder River County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Otter [Powder River County].
- Ohio
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Otter [Union County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Otter.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Otter.
- West Virginia
  - Clay County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Otter [Clay County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Otter ...

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

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Houghton 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 Houghton County.

Ahmeek Mill	Kitchie
Albion
Allouez Mine	Laird
Arcadian Junction	Lake Gerald
Arcadian Mine	Lake Junction
Atlantic	Lakewood
	Linwood
Baltic Junction	Lower Pewabic
Baraga
Belt Line Junction	Mayflower
Blue Jacket	Messner
Bootjack	Midway
Boston Junction	Mills
Boyds	Morrisons Spur
Britton Spur	Motley
Brotherton
	Nestor Crossing
Calumet Junction	New Home
Clark	North Kearsarge
Cole Creek	North Tamarack Mine
Concord
Copper Range Junction	Obenhoff
Corbett	Onnela
Craig	Opechee
Crystal Lake	Osceola Mine

Danielson	Painesdale Junction
Demmon	Phillips
Dollar Bay Dock	Point Mills Junction
Dow	Prickett
Dupont Junction
	Quincy Mine
Eagle Harbor	Quincy
Eagle River	Quinn
East Houghton
Edgemere Junction	Rambaultown
Edgemere	Red Jacket Mine
Elm River	Redridge Junction
	Ricedale
Faleston
Farm	Saint Marys Junction
Farnham	Shore Line Junction
Findley Junction	Silver
Florida	South Kearsarge
Fouchette	South Lake Linden
Fox	Stackpole
Franklin Junction	Stantons Spur
Franklin Junior Mine	Stanwood
Franklin
Freda Park	Tamarack Mine
Frost Junction	Torch Lake City
	Torch Lake Junction
Garon
Glanville	Upper Mills
Green
Grove	Wolverine Mine
Grover	Woodside

Jones Spur	Yandell
	Yellow Jacket

Footnotes ...

<1>

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.

<2>

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 Otter 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.