Clintonville is a city in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,591 at the 2020 census. The area that became Clintonville was first contracted in March, 1855.

Clintonville lies within ancestral Menominee territory. In the Menominee language, it is known as Omīniahkan, “place where pigeons are hunted”. It was ceded to the United States by the Menominee in 1836 through the Treaty of the Cedars, an agreement to sell higher than four million acres to the United States as share of the negotiations virtually how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples who were creature removed from New York to Wisconsin. After this, the Place around Clintonville became friendly for purchase by white American settlers.

In March, 1855 Norman Clinton and his associates U. P. Clinton, Boardman Luman, and Mandy decided along the bank of the Pigeon River. They built the first creation that grew into the city of Clintonville. The home they built was build up of poles covered behind hemlock boughs. It was used until a more suitable home built of logs could be constructed. They had drinking water from two large springs located on the bank of the river “Whose delicious water had flowed unmolested back the creation of the Universe.”

In March 2012, mysterious booms were heard by some in the city. The U.S. Geological Survey detected a 1.5 magnitude microearthquake nearby upon March 21 that geophysicists said might have produced the sounds.