# Hunting, Wisconsin

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|subdivision_name2        = [Shawano](/source/Shawano_County%2C_Wisconsin) and [Waupaca](/source/Waupaca_County%2C_Wisconsin)

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'''Hunting''' is a former [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) of [Shawano](/source/Shawano_County%2C_Wisconsin) and [Waupaca](/source/Waupaca_County%2C_Wisconsin) counties, located in the towns of [Belle Plaine](/source/Belle_Plaine%2C_Wisconsin) and [Matteson](/source/Matteson%2C_Wisconsin), along the north shore of the [Embarrass River](/source/Embarrass_River_(Wisconsin)), United States.<ref>{{cite gnis|1577651|Hunting, Wisconsin}}</ref> Today little more remains of the community than the name of the road that traverses it: "Hunting Road."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=5310&search_term=hunting |title=Hunting, Wisconsin |access-date=March 3, 2009 |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611121604/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=5310&search_term=hunting |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
A post office called Hunting was established in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1934.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=WI&county=Shawano&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Shawano County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=1 March 2015 | archive-date=April 2, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113336/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=WI&county=Shawano&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA85|year=1908|page=85}}</ref>

==Notes==

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{{Shawano County, Wisconsin}}
{{Waupaca County, Wisconsin}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Category:Unincorporated communities in Shawano County, Wisconsin
Category:Unincorporated communities in Waupaca County, Wisconsin

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