Hunting, Wisconsin

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]

Hunting
Unincorporated community
Hunting is located in Wisconsin
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Location within the state of Wisconsin
Hunting is located in the United States
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Hunting (the United States)
Coordinates: 44°40′44″N 88°40′58″W
Country United States
State Wisconsin
CountyShawano and Waupaca
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)

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, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Hunting, Wisconsin
  3. "Shawano County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 1, 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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