Shiocton and the Shioc River are named after a band of Menomimee Shioc Indians that lived in the area at the time of the original land survey in 1843.  Corruption of Ojibwe word "ajeatan", meaning "it floats upstream - by force of wind".

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[Source: Surveyor's field notes for T24N R16E:http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=article&byte=6149207&isize=XL&twp=T024NR016E;Milwaukee Sentinel, Aug. 29, 1939.]