Dunbar is a town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States.

The town was founded in 1888 during a period of thriving logging industry in the Wisconsin northern woods.

At that time the railroad was the main means of transporting logs from Dunbar to the southern part of the state and Illinois.

[3] A story says that before the town was officially founded there was a restaurant where a cook with the surname Dunbar worked.

Whenever the railroad stopped at that part of the area they brought food and supplies for the restaurant.