Name: Otto

 

County: Big Horn

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude: 1081627W

Latitude: 442412N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 4163/1269

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Named after Otto Franc who established the Pitchfork Ranch.

Source: WPA

 

A town in the Greybull River country, named for Otto Franc, who founded the Pitchfork Ranch.

Source: Wyoming Guide 

 

The town borrowed its name from Otto Franc who used the range in the vicinity to winter some of the Pitchfork Ranch's cattle.

Source: Wasden

 

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History:

Otto Post Office was established on April 4, 1888 with Frank S. Wood as its first postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A stockraising and farming town in Big Horn County, 12 miles from Basin. Nicely located on the Grey Bull River and surrounded by a beautiful valley.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11

 

To Otto belongs the distinction of being the first surveyed and platted townsite in the Big Horn Basin. Frank S. Woods filed a plat at Lander on April 3, 1888 ... In 1914, because of repeated floodings during high water in the Greybull River, Otto was moved to a new townsite and old Otto abandoned.

Source: Wasden 

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Otto

 

Newspapers:

Grey Bull Mascot

Otto Courier

 

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