Village of Biron, Wood County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No public school with a Biron address appears in the NCES 2023-24 school geocode file.

No ranked list of Biron's largest employers with headcounts was found in a primary source.

No designated official newspaper for village notices was confirmed.

No hospital or clinic located in the village was confirmed.

No public library outlet is located in the village in the IMLS FY2022 file.

The municipality is the Village of Biron, an incorporated village in Wood County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5507650).

Biron's municipal center carries a Wisconsin Rapids mailing address, but Biron is a separate incorporated village from the City of Wisconsin Rapids.

The village covers 4.637 square miles of land and 1.623 square miles of water.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.428356, -89.765765.

Biron lies on the Wisconsin River, with two public boat docks on the river and a riverside Gateway Park along South Biron Drive.

USGS GNIS places the Biron Flowage reservoir in Portage County, not in Wood County.

The 2020 Census counted 839 residents in the Village of Biron.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Biron's population at 857 as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Biron village is 851, from a 2020 estimates base of 840.

The village's own site gives a population of 850.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Biron's population is 694 (+/-197), well below the 2020 Census count; the gap sits inside a wide sampling margin.

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Biron is 46.9 years (+/-10.5).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Biron is $58,000 (+/-$13,158).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Biron is $154,000 (+/-$22,321).

A village president and six trustees govern Biron; the president and three trustees are elected in odd-numbered years and the other three in even-numbered years.

Jon Evenson is Village President and chairs the Plan Commission.

The trustees are Mark Honkomp, Tammy Steward, Mike Guillemot, Tim McKellips, Dan Sullivan and Jamie Biegel.

Samantha Daugherty is Village Clerk (715-423-6584, [email address]).

The Wisconsin Municipal Data System lists Samantha Daugherty as Biron's clerk at 451 Kahoun Road.

The Board of Trustees met in regular session on Monday, May 11, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Center, 451 Kahoun Road; that agenda also approved minutes of an April 13 regular meeting and the April 21 annual meeting.

Trustee committees cover personnel, finance and budget, legislative/ordinance/zoning, public property and safety, public works, and the water utility, and the village sends a representative to a wastewater commission.

Agendas and minutes are published on the village's Agendas & Minutes page through HeyGov, and the clerk's page links to legal notices and the statewide wisconsinpublicnotice.org.

The Municipal Center at 451 Kahoun Road is open Monday through Thursday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Village officials moved into a 13,300-square-foot municipal building and fire station in February 1997.

A three-member public works crew led by Public Works Director Kayla Lumaye maintains roads, parks and utilities, with a 24/7 on-call line.

The water utility maintains about 18.5 miles of mains, two wells and a 250,000-gallon elevated tank; wastewater goes to the City of Wisconsin Rapids treatment plant through about 15 miles of sewer and six lift stations.

In 2026 the village is running a County Highway U reconstruction project with a dedicated project-updates page.

The Census places the whole village inside the Wisconsin Rapids School District.

Wisconsin Rapids School District (NCES 5517070) runs 12 schools from PK-12 and enrolled 4,578 students in 2024-25.

ND Paper's Biron Division is a paper mill on the Wisconsin River that made its first paper in 1896 and joined ND Paper in 2018.

ND Paper says it converted both Biron paper machines (B25 and B26) to corrugated medium and linerboard grades.

The village's business list includes ND Paper, Mariani Packing Co., several cranberry companies (Dempze, Honestly Cranberry, Wood U Cranberry), Airgas, Synagro and Kwik Trip.

A 230-acre business park was completed in July 2014, with manufacturing, highway-commercial (along Highway U) and mixed-use areas.

For county context, Wood County had 1,717 business establishments and 34,252 paid employees in 2023, 5,677 of them in manufacturing.

The Wisconsin Rapids City Times covers the Biron area; a September 2026 story reported a state contract for WIS 54 railroad crossings in the villages of Biron and Plover.

The Biron Volunteer Fire Department was formed in November 1937 and moved to its current Kahoun Road station in 1997.

Shawn Dillingham is Fire Chief; the department runs a 2021 Spartan Metrostar engine, a 1998 Pierce Lance engine and a 2007 Ford F550 brush truck.

The fire department meets the first and third Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. and accepts members 18 or older with a valid Wisconsin driver's license.

Biron addresses use the Wisconsin Rapids ZIP code 54494; no post office inside the village was confirmed.

The village park on South Biron Drive has playground equipment, a baseball diamond, basketball, tennis and pickleball courts, and a rentable shelter house; pets are not allowed.

Sunset Point Park in the Bridgewater development has an ADA-accessible fishing pier, a recreational trail, a pedestrian bridge, a public boat landing and seasonal dock rentals.

ATVs and UTVs may use all village streets except 80th Street, and no ATV, UTV or golf cart may operate between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.

The village's Berries & Boos Scarecrow Contest & Vendor Event is set for October 17 at the Municipal Center, with a Fire Department brat fry and cranberries and pumpkins for sale.

A sawmill was built at the site in 1839; Francis X. Biron, for whom the village is named, arrived in 1840 and bought the mill in 1846.

The Grand Rapids Pulp & Paper Co. had the village site surveyed in June 1895 and recorded the plat November 13, 1896; the village incorporated in 1910.

The Biron Community Hall opened October 17, 1920, with an auditorium, bowling alley, reading room and council chambers.