Utica (formerly Welaunee) is a town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.

Among the first known settlers were people named Leth, Harris, Armine Pickett, D. H. Nash, Lucius Hawley, E. B.

McKee, a Wesleyan Methodist was the first clergyman in town and held the first religious meeting.

On the Fourth of July 1846, the first season of the new settlement was celebrated by these pioneers in a grove, "with the doctrines of '76 declared as their political creed, an oration delivered by Rev.

The town continued under the name of Utica until 1856, at which time it was changed to Welaunee.

The population was principally composed of emigrants from the older states, with a large portion of Welsh.