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Ashippun is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Ashippun, Dodge County, located on Wisconsin Highway 67 about 7 miles south of Neosho.

The name Ashippun is of Ojibwe origin, derived from ajiopan, while the river running through the eastern part of the town was known to Native residents by their word for raccoon.

The town of Ashippun was first settled in the early 1840s, with one of the first land claims filed on October 17, 1842, and Hans Gasman settling near Pine Lake in 1843; by 1850 the township had 1,017 residents drawn from the East Coast, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man.

The community is split between Ashippun and Old Ashippun: when the first railroad was built several miles from the original settlement, much of the community relocated to the tracks, just as happened in nearby Lebanon.

The Ashippun CDP's population more than tripled between censuses, jumping from 333 in 2010 to 1,166 in 2020 as its boundaries captured more of the growing community.

The surrounding town of Ashippun had 2,663 residents at the 2020 census and covers 35.7 square miles of rolling, glacier-shaped farmland and limestone ledges.

Ashippun is home to Honey Acres, a beekeeping museum known as the "Honey of a Museum" that was established in 1852.

Ashippun students are in the Oconomowoc Area School District, and its public high school is Oconomowoc High School.

Journalist and women's suffrage activist Theodora W. Youmans, a leader of the Wisconsin suffrage movement, was born in Ashippun in 1863.