Welcome to Otto ...

So far, we found very little information about Otto. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Otto to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Otto - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Otto, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Otto , we believe that it would have been located within present day Webster County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Otto, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Time Zone: The area where Otto was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Otto was located: 402 & 531<3>

Communities Also Named Otto ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 25 communities that are also named Otto - they are located in Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Kansas (3), Manitoba, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico (2), New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (2), West Virginia and Wyoming (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Otto.

Adding Otto to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Otto was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Otto post office opened in 1884.

We also found Otto on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Nebraska (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Otto.

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Otto, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Webster, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 402 code has been Overlayed with the 531 area code. New phone numbers in the Otto area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Otto area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/