Ottine

Ottine is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 90 in 2000.[1] It is home to Palmetto State Park which can accommodate approximately 500 daily campers.[2]

The mapped record of its area from 1856 indicates Ottine originally began as a former "Beaumont, Gonzales County, Texas" on the San Marcos River, northeast of what is now known-as Belmont, Texas on the Guadalupe River.[3]

Ottine is home to an urban legend surrounding a bigfoot-like humanoid "swamp thing".[4]

Coordinates: 29°35′53″N 97°35′03″W  /  29.59806°N 97.58417°W  / 29.59806; -97.58417

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