The United States Board on Geographic names has notified Cook County Auditor- Treasurer Braidy Powers that a request to name a stream in Hovland “Otis Creek” has been approved.
The 3.6-mile stream starts in Grand Portage State Forest, 1.2 miles northeast of the point where the Flute Reed River enters Chicago Bay of Lake Superior.
The creek is named after Otis Anderson (1918-2004), who operated a sawmill there. Friends and relatives successfully petitioned to name the creek on his property after him.
The name has been entered into the Geographic Names Information System, the nation’s official geographic names repository, which can be found at geonames.usgs. gov.
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