Do you know of Otranto ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Otranto. 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 Otranto.
Our sources for Otranto (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Otranto other than they indicate that Otranto would be found somewhere in Barnwell County, South Carolina.
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 Otranto ...
We found two communities that share the name Otranto.
There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Otranto.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Otranto in the United States.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Otranto [Charleston County].
- Charleston County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Iowa
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Otranto [Mitchell County].
- Iowa
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Otranto ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Otranto:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Otranto - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Barnwell 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 Barnwell County.