Town of Cleveland, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No major employers located in the Town of Cleveland could be identified from a primary source.

No news outlet was confirmed as regularly covering Town of Cleveland government.

No parks, trails or named lakes inside the town could be confirmed from a primary source.

No recurring community festival or tradition in the town could be confirmed.

The town's founding date and naming history could not be anchored to a fetched source.

The municipality is the Town of Cleveland in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507315425; WI DOA code 37014).

Wisconsin has other municipalities named Cleveland: Towns of Cleveland in Taylor County (DOA 61008), Chippewa County (09012) and Jackson County (27014), and the Village of Cleveland in Manitowoc County (36112). This record covers only the Marathon County town.

Cleveland is an unincorporated civil town governed by a town board of a chairman and two supervisors.

The Town Hall is at 214261 County Road M, Stratford, WI 54484, and the Town Garage is at 214534 County Road M.

The town office is open by appointment; the phone is 715-323-3422.

The Town of Cleveland covers 29.644 square miles of land and 0.858 square miles of water, centered near 44.822864, -90.018978.

Bradley is a named populated place in Marathon County at 44.8010765, -90.0148517.

Bradley sits at the junction of WIS 153 and County Highway M, about 3 miles east of Stratford.

The town is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Witt Flowage, Quinn Flowage 1, Chequamegon Waters Flowage and Shoulder Creek Flowage 0.2 are GNIS reservoirs in Taylor County, so they belong near the Taylor County Town of Cleveland, not this one.

The 2020 Census counted 1,486 residents in the Town of Cleveland, Marathon County.

The Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official estimate for the Town of Cleveland is 1,502 residents.

The 2000 census counted 1,160 residents in the town.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of the town's population is 1,574 (margin of error +/-224).

The town's median age is 38.3 years (ACS 2019-2023, margin of error +/-4.2).

The town's median household income is $98,313 (ACS 2019-2023, margin of error +/-$20,297).

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the town is $237,800 (ACS 2019-2023, margin of error +/-$37,856).

Kurt Jochimsen is the town board chairman (715-615-3233).

The two town board supervisors are Paul 'Bucky' Drexler and Lori Hollatz.

Alexandra Skaya is the town clerk (715-323-3422, [email address]).

Julaine Aschenbrenner is the town treasurer.

Town board meetings and elections are held at the Town Hall, normally on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.; the town advises checking the calendar for the exact date.

The town board's September 8, 2026 meeting was set for Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Town Hall; the agenda included the 2027 budget and a town attorney item.

Regular meeting dates can move: in 2026 the June and August meetings were held June 2 and August 4 instead of the second Tuesday, and the town posted a date-change notice for each.

The town's 2026 Annual Meeting was held April 22, 2026.

Meeting notices and agendas post on the town website and on the communication boards at the Town Garage and Town Hall, at least 24 hours before a meeting.

Agendas and minutes are archived on the website's Agendas and Minutes page, which held 167 records on the fetch date.

The town's website is www.townofclevelandwi.com; staff email addresses use the townofcleveland.wi.gov domain.

A town Wind and Solar Committee reports to the board. In July 2026 the board signed an engagement letter with a municipal lawyer the committee recommended for wind and solar turbine matters.

The town applied a Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP) grant to a blacktop project from Balsam Road to Schuette Road.

The town offers a mailing list and an email newsletter linked from its home page.

Most of the town lies in the Stratford School District (28.385 square miles of land). The Edgar School District covers the other 1.258 square miles.

The Stratford School District (NCES 5514580) is a PK-12 district at 213311 Legion St., Stratford, that enrolled 774 students in 2024-25.

Stratford Elementary, Stratford Middle and Stratford High share the 213311 Legion St. campus in Stratford.

The Edgar School District (NCES 5504080), which covers 1.258 square miles of the town, enrolled 575 students in 2024-25.

Marathon County, the town's economic region, had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023.

The town lists the Stratford Area Fire Department (715-687-2121) as its fire contact.

No public library outlet is in the town. The nearest in the IMLS file is the Marathon County Public Library Stratford Branch at 213201 Scholar St., Stratford.

The town hall uses a Stratford mailing address, ZIP code 54484.

The town runs its own garbage and recycling service with a sanitation crew, with collection events on Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.

The town board oversees the Maryel boat landing. In July 2026 it approved an arrangement for a local group to pay for garbage pickup there for the rest of the season.