Village of Eland, Shawano County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No list of current employers in the village was found on a fetched source.

No newspaper was confirmed as covering Eland from its own site. The village's July 2026 bills include a $181.67 payment to 'New Media'. No broadcast station is licensed to Eland in the FCC bulk section.

No public library outlet in Eland was found in the IMLS bulk section.

The fire and EMS provider for the village was not confirmed from a fetched source. A restored early 1900s Eland fire truck is on display at the depot roundhouse.

The municipality is the Village of Eland, an incorporated village in Shawano County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5522975; county subdivision GEOID 5511522975; WI DOA code 59121).

Eland was originally named Eland Junction and was platted by the railroad in 1888.

The village covers 2.213 square miles of land and no measured water area.

The Census internal point for Eland is near 44.866913 N, 89.208963 W.

GNIS records Eland as a populated place (feature 1564486) in Shawano County at 44.8705272, -89.2151134.

Eland uses ZIP code 54427; the village mailing address is PO Box 65, Eland, WI 54427.

The county directory places the Village of Eland in the 87th Assembly District (Rep. Brent Jacobson, R) and in Shawano County Board District 25 (Supervisor Dennis L. Knaak). The Census geocoder places the village center in State Senate District 29 and Congressional District 8.

The 2020 Census counted 199 residents in Eland.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates 192 residents as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Eland is 189, from a 2020 estimates base of 196.

The 2010 Census counted 202 residents in the village.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population is 235, plus or minus 79.

The ACS 2019-2023 median age is 51.9 years, plus or minus 22.6.

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $61,250, plus or minus $20,263.

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $115,800, plus or minus $36,964.

Eland is governed by a village board of a president and four trustees.

Shane Larson is Village Board President.

The four trustees are Jim Steebs, Kyle Resch, Howard Graves and Kevin Low.

Denise Larson is Village Clerk (715-881-0028, [email address]), and Claudia Ploeger is Treasurer (715-253-6040, [email address]).

The Village Board meets on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Village Hall, W19141 Maple St.

The village posts the upcoming board agenda and monthly minutes (January through July 2026, plus a 2025 archive) on its website, villageofeland.wi.gov. Office hours are by appointment with the clerk.

At its July 13, 2026 meeting the board accepted Meverden Materials Inc.'s $27,950 bid for Lull Ave. work over a $28,751 bid, noted donations for the Mill Pond Dam repair, and raised maintenance pay to $20 an hour using village equipment and $22 without it.

Village elections are held at the Eland Village Hall, W19141 Maple St., with polls open 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The village contracts with Harter's Fox Valley Disposal for trash and recycling, with regular pickup on Fridays and large-item pickups in spring and fall (September 25 in 2026).

The Census geocoder places the village center in the Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District (NCES 5517100), a PK-12 district of 3 schools based at 400 W Grand Ave., Wittenberg, with 1,175 students in 2024-25.

Eland sits in Shawano County, which had 892 business establishments and 10,135 paid employees in 2023. That series does not publish village counts.

The Village Hall is at W19141 Maple St., Eland.

The village operates the Eland Cemetery. A single plot costs $300 for residents and $500 for non-residents.

The restored Eland Depot is a museum of railroad memorabilia and local history, open with advance notice or during Eland Day. The Eland Area Historical Society maintains it.

The village runs a ball field park (Little League, men's BABA baseball and Old Timers softball), Mill Pond Park with a rentable shelter and a fishing pond, and Depot Park.

The Village Board stocks the Mill Pond for the opening day of fishing, the first Saturday in May, with fish paid for by Eland Fisheree, LLC.

Depot Park holds about 1,700 feet of railway with three small working train engines used for rides and display.

GNIS records Eland Pond, a named lake in Shawano County, at 44.87009, -89.21198.

Eland Day, the village celebration at Depot Park, is held on the second Saturday of August in most years.

Eland Fisheree, LLC holds a Kids Fisheree at the pond park on the Saturday before Father's Day, and Santa visits the village in December.

Eland incorporated as a village in 1905.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Eland was a Chicago & North Western freight and passenger terminal where the line split into two routes to Chicago, one through Green Bay and Shawano and one through Clintonville and Oshkosh. The village says as many as 20 trains a day passed through.

Around the depot the village once had a bank, several stores and the Fuller House hotel and restaurant, and sawmills stored logs in the mill pond where the fishing pond is now.

The village is named after the eland, an African antelope.