Omro is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.

The city is located along the Fox River, approximately 10 miles west of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

OMRO, P. V., on section 17 and 18, in town of Bloomingdale, Winnebago county, at the junction of the Manitowoc and Menasha, (extended), and the Waupun and Liberty Prairie plank roads.

It has a heavy body of timber on the north, with a rich soil of openings and prairie on the south, and has excellent facilities by water for obtaining pine logs from the immense pinery of Wolf river, a great quantity of which is here manufactured into lumber.

Population 600, with 100 dwellings, 5 stores, 2 hotels, 3 mills, and 4 religious denominations.

[5] The area encompassing present day Omro was Winnebago Indian Territory when it was first visited by French explorers in 1639.

Omro's location gave it two advantages from the beginning, which were a position on one of the few natural transportation and communications routes of the time and an abundant amount of water for industrial use.

One widely held version is that it was named for Charles Amereau, a French trader and blacksmith who started a fur trading post there.

[citation needed] Several projects pay respects to Omro's past, including a historical walking tour, the Scott park pavilion project, and the designation of a historic downtown district.