Town of Emmet, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Town of Emmet, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507324025).

Emmet is a town (civil town) governed by a chairperson and two supervisors, not a city or village.

A separate Town of Emmet exists in Dodge County (GEOID 5502724000); this profile covers only the Marathon County town.

The Town of Emmet covers 39.872 square miles of land and 0.367 square miles of water.

Emmet's Census internal point is near 44.810943, -89.893585.

The town hall is in Halder, near the geographic center of the township and just south of State Highway 153.

The 1913 county history describes the town's territory as township 27, range 5 east, plus about nine sections in the south part of township 27, range 6 east.

Town officials and businesses use Mosinee (54455), Edgar (54426) and Marathon (54448) mailing addresses; the Halder Community Hall is at 135125 Halder Drive, Mosinee, WI 54455.

The 2020 Census counted 905 residents in the Town of Emmet.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Emmet's population at 910 as of January 1, 2025.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Emmet's population is 1,048 (+/-190).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Emmet is 42.6 years (+/-5.1).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Emmet is $86,250 (+/-$28,340).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Emmet is $228,400 (+/-$27,973).

Tyler Dahlke is Town Chairperson.

Daniel Knetter and Lisa Baur are Town Supervisors.

Gerald W. Fitzgerald is Town Clerk and handles building permits (715-693-2847, [email address]).

Michael Maguire is Town Treasurer.

Jim Kurtzweil is the town's assessor.

The Town Plan Commission members are Tom Martin, Kevin Kraft, Bruce Baur, Gerald (Huck) Kress and LeeAnn Thomsen.

Marathon County Board members Tim Sondelski and Jerry Kurth are listed as the town's county board representatives.

Regular town board meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Halder Community Hall.

Agendas post at the Halder Community Hall and on the town website, usually the Sunday or Monday before a meeting, and minutes are uploaded once approved at the next monthly meeting.

The town board minutes name The Record Review as the town newspaper for bid notices.

The town maintains townofemmetwi.com (current, 2026 meetings) and townofemmetwi.gov (older pages; its compiled agendas run through May 2025).

Four unified school districts cover the town: Mosinee (about 50 percent of its area), Edgar (about 21 percent), Marathon City (about 18 percent) and Stratford (about 12 percent).

Mosinee School District (NCES 5509960) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 1,902 students in 2024-25, based at 146001 State Highway 153, Mosinee.

Edgar School District (NCES 5504080) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 575 students in 2024-25, based at 203 E Birch St, Edgar.

Marathon City School District (NCES 5508670) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 770 students in 2024-25, based at 204 East St, Marathon.

Stratford School District (NCES 5514580) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 774 students in 2024-25, based at 213311 Legion St, Stratford.

Marathon County had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023, including 18,923 in manufacturing.

The town's business directory lists 14 local businesses, including Kafka Granite, Red Rock Granite, Kafka Conveyors & Equipment, Central Culvert & Supply, Rock Ridge Orchard, Twin-B Dairy and the Safari Bar in Halder.

The 1913 county history described the whole town as farm land settled from the Mosinee area.

The Record-Review is the newspaper the town uses for legal and bid notices, which the minutes call the town newspaper.

Fire and ambulance coverage comes from more than one department: in 2025 the board approved payments of $22,500 to the Mosinee Fire District and $20,726.84 to the Edgar Area Volunteer Fire Department, and the minutes say three fire departments serve the town.

The Emmet town hall, built in the late 1930s, is the regular meeting place and polling place; the hall and an outdoor shelter are available to rent.

No public library outlet is listed in the town; the Marathon County Public Library has branches in Edgar (224 S. Third Ave.) and Mosinee (Joseph Dessert Branch, 123 Main St.).

The Halder Ball Diamond dates to the 1920s, when Sunday afternoon baseball games became a town pastime; it is still in use.

The town history says early Irish settler Robert Freeman bought 160 acres along what became known as Freeman's Creek; GNIS lists a Freeman Creek in Marathon County.

The Halder Community Club runs a summer softball season at the Halder ballpark, with town-issued beer permits.

A no-charge electronics recycling event for Emmet residents was set for Saturday, September 19, 2026, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Minnow Ponds Park in Edgar.

The August 11, 2026 partisan primary polls opened 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., with in-person absentee voting July 28 to August 8 by appointment with the clerk.

State Highway 153 runs through the town just north of the Halder hall, and in 2025 the board took up Highway 153 reconstruction, culverts and intersections in the town and crack sealing on Halder Drive.

The Town of Emmet was established on December 20, 1888, and held its first town meeting on April 2, 1889.

The town is named for Robert Emmet, the Irish revolutionary who led the 1803 uprising, and Felix Maguire was its first chairman.

Irish immigrants settled the area from the 1850s, and Emmet was part of what was called the 'Irish Settlement'; the 1913 history says the settlement spanned the present towns of Mosinee, Emmet and Cleveland.

Residents voted in 1917 to make the town 'dry'.

In 1913 the village of Halder, named for an old settler, had a post office, a general store, a tavern, a blacksmith, a cheese factory and a feed mill, and a second cooperative cheese factory operated in the town.