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Welcome to Otsego ...

Otsego is located in Columbia County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Otsego, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1847.

Otsego is 940 feet [287 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Otsego lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Otsego ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 8 communities that are also named Otsego - they are located in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan (2), Minnesota, Ohio (2) and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Otsego ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Otsego.

  • Sun Prairie
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun Prairie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
    • Sun Prairie is located in Dane County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 35,119 people
  • Beaver Dam
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • DeForest
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Portage
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Windsor
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Columbus
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Marshall
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Waterloo
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Lodi
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Poynette
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Otsego. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Otsego.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Otsego. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Otsego.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Otsego. See our Newspapers Page for Otsego.

Adding Otsego to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Otsego in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Otsego was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Otsego post office opened in 1847.

We also found Otsego in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Otsego.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Columbia, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Otsego - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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