Browning is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.

The east and west branches of the Little Black River flow through the town.

Fragments of a low ice-marginal ridge cross the northeast corner of the town.

[5] The south and east edges of the six by six mile square that would become Browning were first surveyed in 1851 by crews working for the U.S. government.

In the fall of 1861 a different crew of surveyors marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

[8]Around 1873, the Wisconsin Central Railroad built its line up through the forest just west of what would become Deer Creek, through Medford heading for Ashland.

To finance this undertaking, the railroad was granted half the land for eighteen miles on either side of the track laid - generally the odd-numbered sections.

[9] An 1880 map of this area shows early roads spanning the six-miles square that would become Browning.

One logging dam impounded the west branch of the Black and another the east.

Co., Medford Manufacturing Co, H & L Keifer, and Rib River Land Co. some of the largest landholders.