Town of Bevent, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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

No official newspaper or regular local news outlet for the Town of Bevent was named in any source read this session; the town posts notices on its website and bulletin boards.

No hospital or clinic located in the town was confirmed; the town's plan points to hospitals in Marathon and Portage counties.

The municipality is the Town of Bevent, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507307125).

Bevent is a town (civil town), governed by a town chairman and two supervisors, not a city or village.

The Town of Bevent (GEOID 5507307125) is distinct from the unincorporated community of Bevent; the town describes that community as located only partially in the town, and GNIS places the community point near 44.7705, -89.3896.

The town's own site says the unincorporated community of Shantytown is located in the town.

Bevent is in the southeast portion of Marathon County, bounded by the Town of Reid to the north, the Town of Guenther to the west, the Town of Franzen to the east, and the Town of Sharon in Portage County to the south.

The Town of Bevent covers 42.135 square miles of land and 0.635 square miles of water.

The town's Census internal point is near 44.725172, -89.419995.

The town's plan describes development as dominated by agriculture, with pockets of residences and scattered commercial establishments.

The 2020 Census counted 1,049 residents in the Town of Bevent.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Bevent's population at 1,052 as of January 1, 2025.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Bevent's population is 1,002 (+/-144).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Bevent is 49.5 years (+/-1.9).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Bevent is $87,083 (+/-$14,393).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Bevent is $250,000 (+/-$26,485).

The town's plan records that its first settlers came from the Kaszub region of northwestern Poland, then under German control, and that the Polish language is no longer spoken in the town.

Perry Cebula is Town Chairman.

Tim Lemke and Randy Wanta are Town Supervisors.

Anne Mieska is Town Clerk (715-454-7171).

The state Municipal Data System lists the Town of Bevent (DOA code 37008) clerk as Anne Mieska, with a mailing address of 207211 Moraine Rd, Hatley, WI 54440.

Ruby Pepowski is Town Treasurer.

Ralph Moegenburg is Zoning Permit Administrator, Kevin Breit is the Uniform Dwelling Code building inspector, and Kurt Moeller is property assessor.

The Town Board meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Bevent Town Hall.

Agendas post 24 hours in advance on the town website and on bulletin boards on Store Lane, in the Town Hall parking lot, and on the Town Hall front door.

The town's website posts monthly meeting agendas and minutes; its 2026 section runs from January through September 2026, including a June 2026 special meeting, and the archive continues back through at least 2023.

The regular monthly meeting for September 2026 was set for Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Bevent Town Hall, with reports from the zoning permit administrator and the Bevent EMR team.

The 2026 Annual Town Meeting was set for Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Bevent Town Hall.

The Bevent Town Hall is at 205825 County Road Y, Hatley, WI 54440, which is also the polling place; the town mailing address is 207211 Moraine Road, Hatley.

The town's official website is townofbevent.com.

Harter's Fox Valley Disposal handles town-wide garbage and recycling, with Wednesday pickup.

2026 election dates posted by the town are the Spring Election April 7, the Partisan Primary August 11, and the General Election November 3; polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Two unified school districts cover the town: Rosholt School District (about 96 percent of the town's area) and Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District (about 4 percent).

Rosholt School District (NCES 5513140) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 494 students in 2024-25, based at 346 W Randolph St, Rosholt, in Portage County.

Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District (NCES 5517100) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 1,175 students in 2024-25, based at 400 W Grand Ave, Wittenberg.

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

The town's plan describes Bevent's shift from small dairy farms to a bedroom community whose residents commute to Wausau and Stevens Point, with tillable land sold or rented to larger farms growing corn, soybeans, ginseng, and some potatoes.

The Town of Bevent is part owner of the Hatley Area Fire and Ambulance District, which covers the Towns of Bevent, Elderon, Reid, part of Norrie, and the Village of Hatley; the fire station is at 300 Clark Street, Hatley.

The town has a volunteer first responder team, the Bevent First Responders, who provide emergency care before the ambulance arrives; Marathon County Dispatch handles 911 calls.

Police protection in the town is provided by the Marathon County Sheriff's Department.

The town's plan says the Marathon County Public Library's Hatley Branch serves the Town of Bevent.

Town addresses, including the Town Hall, use Hatley, WI 54440.

The town's plan lists Big Bass Lake (177 acres), Wadley Lake (45 acres), Moen Lake (37 acres), and Little Frog Lake (26 acres) within the town.

The Big Bass Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District was formed in 1986 to maintain the lake's sport fishery and its semi-secluded character.

The town's plan says the Town of Bevent does not operate any public parks or trails; state and county recreation land (Spring Ponds and part of the county's Leather Camp Forest Unit) lies within the town.

Recurring civic dates include the April annual town meeting, a town cleanup day at the town hall, and the monthly board meeting; no community festival was found in town sources.

The town's plan says Bevent was split from Pike Lake Township along with the Town of Reid, and that its name came from 'Berent', a town in German-controlled Poland, after a transcription error turned the 'r' into a 'v'.

Polish settlers built a church in 1882 named for Blessed Ladislaus; the church was replaced in 1896, and the plan identifies the 1896 St. Ladislaus church as a historic structure.

A four-room parish school built in 1913 was staffed by Felician Sisters from 1932 and closed in 1969; the building now serves as a CCD center.

The plan says the town's early businesses clustered near the church: a general store, two grocery stores attached to taverns, a short-lived horse-powered grist mill, a blacksmith shop, and a short-lived cheese factory.

The plan notes three roadside shrines in the town and reports no properties on the National or State Register of Historic Places.

USGS GNIS records a populated place named Bevent in Marathon County at 44.7705268, -89.3895617.

The town's Area Information text repeats the Wikipedia article nearly word for word, including the ancestry percentages; the town page still gives a 2010 population of 1,118 while the article now gives the 2020 count of 1,049. Those figures are not treated as independent evidence.