{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Shopiere, Wisconsin |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]] and [[census-designated place]] |nickname = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = [[Area code 608|608]] |blank_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank_info = 1574070<ref name="gnis"/> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Shopiere''' is an [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] and [[census-designated place]] in the Town of [[Turtle, Wisconsin|Turtle]], in [[Rock County, Wisconsin]], United States.<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|1574070|Shopiere, Wisconsin}}</ref><ref>[http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/rock/shopiere.cfm Wisconsin Hometown Locator]</ref> It was first named a CDP at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], which showed a population of 154.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shopiere CDP, Wisconsin|url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Shopiere_CDP,_Wisconsin?g=1600000US5573675|website=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=January 19, 2023}}</ref>

==History== The community was originally named Waterloo.<ref name="rrbook"/> The first settlement was made in the 1830s by a colony from Connecticut.<ref name="rrbook">{{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=PA124|year=1908|page=124}}</ref> The present name is derived from ''chaux pierre,'' [[French language|French]] for [[limestone]], which is abundant in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp|title=Term: Shopiere [origin of place name]|publisher=Dictionary of Wisconsin History|accessdate=2009-05-20}}</ref>

==Demographics== {{Expand section|date=January 2023}} {{US Census population |2020= 154 |align=left |footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=January 1, 2023}}</ref> }}{{clear left}}

==Notable people== * The community was the last home of [[Louis P. Harvey]], the short-lived [[governor of Wisconsin]], who drowned bringing medical supplies to wounded troops near the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[Battle of Shiloh]] in 1862.<ref>{{cite journal|last= Bauchle|first=May L.|date=1926–1927|journal= [[Wisconsin Magazine of History]]|volume=10|issue=1|pages=29–34|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=browse&volumn=103&articleID=5406| title = The Shopiere Shrine}}</ref> * [[Loretta C. Van Hook]] (1852-1935), missionary and educator

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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Rock County, Wisconsin]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin]] [[Category:1830s establishments in Wisconsin Territory]] [[Category:Census-designated places in Rock County, Wisconsin]] [[Category:Census-designated places in Wisconsin]]

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