Otis

Otis is a unincorporated network in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, a half mile north of Otis Junction on Oregon Route 18. It is close to the Salmon River. Otis post office was built up in 1900 and was named after Otis Thompson, nephew of Archibald S. Thompson, the postmaster. U.S. Highway 101 used to go through Otis until a thrilling and bumpy area of street was rerouted in the 1960s. Otis Junction is at the crossing point of the previous end of Oregon Route 18 and the previous arrangement of U.S. 101. The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology has an Otis street number however is found closer to the drift on Cascade Head. The Otis ZIP code, 97368, additionally covers the network of Rose Lodge.

Today Otis and Otis Junction are viewed as synonymous. Otis made the national features in 1999 and again in 2004, when it was d that the town was available to be purchased for $3 million. The news stories portray the Otis Cafe and different conveniences that are at Otis Junction; it is hazy if the 193 sections of land 0.78 km2 that were available to be purchased incorporated the land in Otis legitimate. Proprietor Vivian Lematta's granddad purchased the land from relatives of the Siletz Indians for $800 in 1910 Lematta left Otis in 1957.