Otto, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Central Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82434. The Survey maps it on the Otto quadrangle. It stands 4,167 feet above sea level.

Otto within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1951 USGS Otto quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Basin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Otto between 2009 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Worland Field Office	LANE 43
31 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cody Field Office	MILEPOST 116
12 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Bighorn County	2017-4
18 October 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Bighorn County	OTTO HIGHWAY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otto in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2011	Flood	Otto	$145,000	Snowmelt waters traveled down the Greybull River and combined with heavy rain from thunderstorms to create lowland flooding along the river upstream of Greybull. Lane 40 1/2 and Road 5 southwest of Burlington were both inundated by water. The river tried to reroute itself in the vicinity of Road 5. This led county road and bridge employees to construct a new dike to protect one residence and a road.
July 2011	Flood	Otto	$50,000	Flood waters along the Greybull River just upstream of Greybull were responsible for isolating at least two homes as water covered an entire field. The water also inundated low-lying areas along the west side of US Highway 16. The right-of-way fence along the highway was barely showing and nearby barrow pits were almost full.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Otto	-	A video was posted on social media showing several large tree limbs that were brought down from thunderstorm outflow about one mile east of Otto. The outflow was associated with a thunderstorm tracking north of Otto.
June 2013	Hail	Otto	-	Nickel sized hail was observed by a spotter south of Otto.
May 2010	Funnel Cloud	Otto	-	A small, narrow funnel persisted with little movement west of Greybull. The funnel lasted ten minutes and no damage was reported.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Otto	-	A person with wind measuring equipment reported a 60 mph gust associated with a strong thunderstorm approaching from the west.
August 2009	Hail	Otto	-	Half dollar sized hail struck a ranch near Otto.
June 2002	Hail	Otto	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Burlington	8.9 miles	8
Emblem	9.4 miles	7
Basin	12.6 miles	7
Greybull	13.0 miles	7
Hewitt Place	16.9 miles	7
Manderson	18.9 miles	9
Sales Place	20.2 miles	7
Reeves Corner	23.2 miles	16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Otto	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7109493	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1592503. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.