Village of Bowler, Shawano County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No official Village of Bowler website was found; the village's listed contact is a frontier.com email address.

No primary source names a major employer located inside the village; the school district is the village's most visible institution.

No news outlet was confirmed covering Bowler on a fetched page.

The fire and EMS provider serving the village was not confirmed.

No village park or recreation facility was confirmed on a fetched source beyond Bowler Pond's GNIS listing.

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The municipality is the Village of Bowler, an incorporated village in Shawano County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5509025).

The Census also carries the village as a county subdivision with GEOID 5511509025.

The Bowler, WI 54416 mailing area reaches beyond the village: the Town of Almon and Town of Bartelme halls both carry Bowler addresses. A Bowler address alone does not place a site in the village; claims here cover only GEOID 5509025.

The village covers 1.039 square miles of land and no measured water area.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.862745, -88.981408.

USGS GNIS lists Bowler as a populated place in Shawano County at 44.8630295, -88.9820527.

GNIS lists Bowler Pond in Shawano County at 44.863335, -88.982869, beside the village's internal point.

The 2020 Census counted 320 residents in the Village of Bowler.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Bowler's population at 313 as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimate for Bowler is 309 as of July 1, 2024, from a 2020 estimates base of 315.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Bowler's population is 309 (+/-73).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Bowler is 33.4 years (+/-3.9).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Bowler is $53,750 (+/-$23,234).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Bowler is $133,800 (+/-$35,709).

Otto Maves is Village President (term through 2027).

The county directory lists trustees Brock Strassburg, Gary Paiser and Daniel Ladwig (terms marked 2026) and Scott Breitrick and Joseph Duquette (terms marked 2027), with one 2027 seat marked TBA.

Kerry Breitrick is Clerk/Treasurer (Village Hall 715-793-4910, [email address], P.O. Box 68).

Village meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Hall; winter meetings may start at 7:00 p.m.

The Village Hall is at 107 W. Main St., Bowler.

Zillmer Mid-State Assessment is the village assessor.

Bowler sits in the 6th Assembly District; Ward 1 is in Shawano County Board District 21 and Ward 2 in District 27.

The Bowler School District covers the village.

Bowler School District (NCES 5501560) runs 2 schools from PK-12 and enrolled 304 students in 2024-25, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.98; NCES codes its locale Rural, Remote.

Bowler Elementary and Bowler High both sit at 500 S Almon St in the village.

Glenda Butterfield-Boldig is District Administrator, and the district board includes members for the Village of Bowler and the Towns of Bartelme, Seneca and Hutchins.

Bowler School District teams are the Panthers.

For county context, Shawano County had 892 business establishments and 10,135 paid employees in 2023, 1,494 of them in health care and social assistance.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians, receives Tribal Council mail at PO Box 70, Bowler.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Health & Wellness Center is at W12802 County Hwy A with a Bowler address, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; whether it lies inside the village was not confirmed.

No public library outlet in Bowler appears in the IMLS FY2022 file.

Village addresses use ZIP 54416.

Wikipedia, citing a 1908 railroad place-names book, says Bowler was named for Col. J. C. Bowler, who owned land near the town site.