Quinney is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the town of
Stockbridge,
Calumet County, Wisconsin
Calumet County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,442. The county seat is Chilton. The county was created in 1836 (then in the Wisconsin Territory) and organized in 1850.
Calum ...
, United States.
It is located along
Wisconsin Highway 55
State Trunk Highway 55 (often called Highway 55, STH-55, or WIS 55) is a state highway in Wisconsin, United States. It travels south-to-north in the northeastern part of Wisconsin from an intersection with U.S. Highway 151 ...
approximately one mile (1 km) north of its southern terminus. The
Military Ridge Road
The Old Military Road was a road built by the U.S. Army in 1835–36, connecting Fort Howard (Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay) Wisconsin with Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Prairie du Chien) via Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac, For ...
ran through the community. Quinney was named for Austin E. and John W. Quinney who were two Mohican brothers who led a group of settlers from New York in the 1820s. Quinney was featured as the town of the week on the radio program, Whad'ya Know on 10 August 1985.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Calumet County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
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