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Do you know of Otia ???

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

Our sources for Otia (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 Otia other than they indicate that Otia would be found somewhere in Mason County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1905.

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 Otia ...

We found one communities that share the name Otia.

Within West Virginia, the name Otia is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named Otia in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Monroe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Otia [Monroe County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Otia ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Mason 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 Mason County.

Baden SidingMachirville
Ben LomondMacker's
Big SteenMason City
Brown'sMaupin
BryanMcCausland
Butler 
 Nat
CamdenNease
Corn 
 Redmud
DebbyRock Castle Station
Deer Lick 
 Seaflat
ElwellSettle
 Siloam
FaySpilman
 Stevens
Gap 
Graham StationTen Mile
Graham 
GrimWaggener
 Willow Tree
Hartford 
HickoryYeager
  

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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