Suring, Wisconsin

Suring is a village in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, along the 45th parallel.

This area lies within the traditional homeland of the Menominee, who lived here for millennia before European arrival.

After years of negotiations with the Ho-Chunk and the United States government about how to accommodate the incoming populations of Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples following their removal from New York, the Menominee signed the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars and ceded this territory to the United States.

[7] The village was named in English for Julius "Joe" Suring ((1851-07-30)July 30, 1851‒(1920-08-15)August 15, 1920),[8][9] a local landowner.

[12] Suring was mentioned in at least one national publication[13] due to an incident concerning to parents[14] where the Suring Public Schools superintendent and other administrators were alleged to have conducted multiple strip searches of both boys and girls in an effort to find hidden vaping devices.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.01 square miles (2.62 km2), all of it land.

[18] The Oconto River and Peshtigo Brook define its boundaries on the Southwest.

39.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.