Hunting, Wisconsin

Hunting
Unincorporated community
Hunting
Hunting

Location within the state of Wisconsin

Coordinates: 44°40′44″N 88°40′58″W / 44.67889°N 88.68278°W / 44.67889; -88.68278Coordinates: 44°40′44″N 88°40′58″W / 44.67889°N 88.68278°W / 44.67889; -88.68278
Country United States
State Wisconsin
County Shawano and Waupaca
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)

Hunting, Wisconsin is a former unincorporated community of Shawano and Waupaca Counties, located in the towns of Belle Plaine and Matteson, along the north shore of the Embarrass River, United States.[1] Today little more remains of the community than the name of the road that traverses it: "Hunting Road."[2]

History

A post office called Hunting was established in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1934.[3] The community may have been named either in honor of a landowner named Hunting, or from the fact the area was a hunting ground, or both.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Hunting, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Hunting, Wisconsin
  3. ↑ "Shawano County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 85.


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