Ottine, Texas
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. It is home to Palmetto State Park which can accommodate approximately 500 daily campers. 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.<ref name="Belmont/Beaumont Original Map"></ref> Ottine is home to an urban legend surrounding a bigfoot-like humanoid "swamp thing". Ottine