Village of Edgar, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Village of Edgar in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5522550; WI DOA code 37121).

Edgar is an incorporated village.

The village's mailing address is P.O. Box 67, Edgar, WI 54426-0067 (phone 715-352-2891, fax 715-352-2964).

Edgar village covers 1.808 square miles of land and no recorded water area, with an internal point near 44.922851, -89.962611.

USGS GNIS records Edgar as a populated place in Marathon County at 44.9271888, -89.9634629.

Edgar is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The 2020 Census counted 1,439 residents in the Village of Edgar.

The Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official estimate for Edgar is 1,443 residents.

The Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimate for Edgar village is 1,430 (July 1, 2024), from a 2020 estimates base of 1,441.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Edgar's population is 1,366 (margin of error +/-189).

Edgar's median age is 52 years (ACS 2019-2023, margin of error +/-3.3).

Edgar's median household income is $61,442 (ACS 2019-2023, margin of error +/-$12,713).

The median value of owner-occupied homes in Edgar is $165,900 (ACS 2019-2023, margin of error +/-$24,580).

The state clerk directory lists Jennifer Lopez as clerk for the Village of Edgar (715-352-2891).

Edgar's elected officials met on Monday, September 14, 2026 and held off on joining a Marathon County Sheriff's Department squad vehicle purchasing partnership.

The village website at vil.edgar.wi.us disallows automated agents, and edgarwi.gov, the domain of the clerk's email address, served only a redirect stub on September 19, 2026.

Edgar is served by the Rothschild Area Municipal Court, shared with Rothschild, Marathon City, Weston, Schofield and the Town of Weston.

Edgar is served by the Edgar School District (NCES 5504080), a PK-12 district at 203 E Birch St. that enrolled 575 students in 2024-25.

All of the village's land (1.808 square miles) lies within the Edgar School District.

Edgar Elementary is at 112 N 2nd Ave; Edgar Middle and Edgar High share 203 E Birch St (NCES IDs 550408000440, 550408002391, 550408000441).

The School District of Edgar's website is www.edgar.k12.wi.us, with its office at 203 E. Birch Street.

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

The Record-Review, a Central Wisconsin News paper (centralwinews.com, 715-223-2342), covers Edgar village government and the Edgar Fire Department.

The Marathon County Public Library's Edgar Branch is at 224 South Third Avenue, Edgar (715-352-3155).

IMLS FY2022 data record the Edgar Branch at 2,046 square feet.

The Edgar Women's Club began a local library in 1928 with books from the Wisconsin Traveling Library. The library became a Marathon County Public Library branch in 1973, and the former Edgar Bank was remodeled for it in 1994.

Edgar has its own fire department. In September 2026 its members were asked to try a smartphone app for calls after years of trouble getting pagers to work with Marathon County dispatch.

Edgar addresses use ZIP code 54426.

Edgar Village Hall at 107 W. Beech St. was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2000, for politics and government, architecture and social history.

Edgar has held Tree City USA standing since 1995.

Alfred L. Carey, attorney for the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad, platted Edgar in September 1891.

Edgar incorporated as a village in 1898 from part of the Town of Wien.

S. M. Quaw and George Gumaer built a large sawmill near the station and began sawing lumber in 1891, ahead of the railroad's arrival.

By 1913 Edgar also had a brick and tile works selling up to two million bricks a year, and a 1912 veneer plant that was sold to become a basket factory.

Edgar was named for William Edgar, a local landowner and sawmill owner.

The Edgar Centennial Committee published 'Edgar: an illustrated history, 1898-1998' in 1998.

Frank J. Shortner, a Wisconsin businessman and legislator, served as president of the Village of Edgar and lived there.