Town of Bergen, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No list of major employers located in the Town of Bergen was found in a primary source.

No newspaper of record for Bergen notices was named in a town source; the town posts notices on its website and at the town hall.

No hospital or clinic located in the town was confirmed from a source read this session.

The municipality is the Town of Bergen, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507306875).

This Bergen is the Marathon County town; Wisconsin also has a Town of Bergen in Vernon County, which is a different municipality.

The Town of Bergen covers 27.075 square miles of land and 7.766 square miles of water.

The town's Census internal point is near 44.73473, -89.762467.

Bergen's town hall uses a Mosinee mailing address: 207641 Anglers Lane, Mosinee, WI 54455.

The unincorporated community of Moon lies partly in the town; the USGS GNIS point for Moon (44.7716, -89.7879) falls just inside the neighboring Town of Mosinee.

The 2020 Census counted 740 residents in the Town of Bergen.

The Wisconsin DOA's January 1, 2025 final estimate for the Town of Bergen is 737 residents.

The ACS 2019-2023 five-year estimate of Bergen's population is 786 (margin of error +/-149).

Bergen's ACS 2019-2023 median age is 49.1 years (+/-6.9).

Bergen's ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $96,250 (+/-$11,585).

Bergen's ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $253,100 (+/-$18,256).

A three-member town board governs Bergen: Chairman Ed Rucinski and Supervisors Greg Stankowski and Ken Markrof.

Amy Veenendaal is the Town Clerk (715-693-5666, [email address]).

Susan Stankowski is the Town Treasurer.

Brent Zimmerman is the town's Zoning Administrator.

The Town Board holds its monthly meeting at 6:00 p.m. at the Bergen Town Hall, usually on the second Tuesday of the month.

Meeting notices post on the town website (townofbergenwi.gov) and at the Bergen Town Hall, and residents can subscribe for email or text alerts.

Bergen has a Planning Commission that met repeatedly in 2026, and the town is hosting open houses on Marathon County's proposed zoning map on September 30 and October 1, 2026.

The official town website is townofbergenwi.gov.

Bergen voters cast ballots at the Bergen Town Hall, 207641 Anglers Lane, with polls open 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The town raised its 2025 levy by about $38 per $100,000 of assessed value to begin repaying a Moon Road loan, and mailed a $34,622.82 payment in early March 2026.

The Mosinee School District covers the Town of Bergen.

The Mosinee School District enrolled 1,902 students with 141.71 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers in 2024-2025 across three schools.

Marathon County had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023, including 18,923 in manufacturing.

A proposed Hub City Wind Farm is a live county issue: the town posted notice of a June 17, 2026 public forum in Wausau, with a flyer and survey from the Marathon County Alternative Energy Project Local Impact Advisory Committee.

Bergen residents currently receive EMT-level emergency medical service, and in March 2026 the Town Board backed a proposed fire and EMS merger that would bring paramedic-level service while keeping the Mosinee station staffed.

No public library outlet is listed in the Town of Bergen; the nearest listed Marathon County Public Library outlet is the Joseph Dessert Branch in Mosinee.

Town addresses, including the town hall, use the Mosinee ZIP code 54455.

Water covers about 22 percent of the town's total area (7.766 of 34.841 square miles), and town minutes reference Lakehurst Road, Dam Road, a Lakehurst pond, and a county park on Moon Road.

The town holds an annual Spring Clean-Up at the Bergen Town Hall; the 2026 date was Saturday, May 16, 8 a.m. to noon.

The town's 2026 annual meeting of electors was held April 21, 2026.

The county created the Town of Bergen on January 10, 1870, and its first chairman was the pioneer sawmill owner John Week, whose mill stood on the Big Eau Pleine River.

The 1913 county history describes early Bergen as the Week mill plus the Campbell settlement, with a railroad station called Hutchington (later Dancy) at the east edge of the town and the Little Eau Pleine River forming 'Rice Lake'.

USGS GNIS lists Moon (1569688) and Dancy (1563694) as named communities in Marathon County near the town.