Deer Creek Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Deer Creek Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Deer Creek Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 348 at the 2000 census. Deer Creek Township was organized in 1873. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which of it is land and of it (0.58%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 348 people, 113 households, and 96 families residing in the township. The population density was 10.8 people per square mile (4.2/km²). There were 132 housing units at an average density
Hart (deer) Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag". To be a "hart" was its