Oconto is a city in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,609 at the 2020 census. It is portion of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located partially within the town of Oconto.

Oconto is house to Copper Culture State Park, which has remains obsolete to re 5000-6000 B.C. It is a burial ground of the Copper Culture Indians. This burial arena is considered to be the oldest cemetery in Wisconsin and one of the oldest in the nation. Their descendants affix the Menominee, who have lived here for thousands of years.

The first Europeans to assent the Place were the French, who considered it to be portion of New France. The French Jesuit, Roman Catholic priest, and missionary, Father Claude-Jean Allouez said the first Mass in Oconto on December 3, 1669. The Menominee busy here began participating in the fur trade network and converting to Christianity. This Place was included in the house ceded by the Menominee to the United States presidency in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars. In this treaty, the Menominee ceded more than four million acres of home after years of negotiations virtually how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples who were living thing removed from New York to Wisconsin. Following the treaty, the land became officially handy for American settlement, although soldiers and lumberers had already been here for some time. The same year the Treaty of the Cedars was signed, George Lurwick bought a home and sawmill along the Oconto River, becoming the town’s first private estate owner now that the home had been sold to the United States.

The city of Oconto was incorporated in 1869. The city took its read out from the to hand Oconto River. The name Okāqtow is a Menominee read out meaning “the place of the pike”, one of several pike-related place-names in the area.