Village of Fenwood, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Village of Fenwood, an incorporated village in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5525650; county subdivision GEOID 5507325650; WI DOA code 37126).

Fenwood borders the southern edge of the Town of Wien in west-central Marathon County.

The village covers 0.984 square miles of land and no measured water area.

The Census internal point for Fenwood is near 44.86578 N, 90.014578 W.

GNIS records Fenwood as a populated place (feature 1564913) in Marathon County at 44.866077, -90.015408.

The Census geocoder places the village center in Assembly District 86, State Senate District 29 and Congressional District 7.

The 2020 Census counted 141 residents in Fenwood.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates 142 residents as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Fenwood is 137, from a 2020 estimates base of 140.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population is 135, plus or minus 76.

The ACS 2019-2023 median age is 38.4 years, plus or minus 8.9.

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $82,500, plus or minus $30,613.

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $117,500, plus or minus $39,941.

Jamie Ziegel is the village clerk of record, at 715-571-8262.

The Town of Wien reports good communication with the Village of Fenwood, including agreements for road maintenance, plowing and grading.

Wien's plan encourages new housing near the Villages of Edgar and Fenwood and calls for meetings with both villages on directing development there, while also aiming to prevent large annexations that would hurt the town.

The Census geocoder places the village center in the Edgar School District (NCES 5504080), a PK-12 district of 3 schools based at 203 E Birch St., Edgar, with 575 students in 2024-25.

Fenwood sits in Marathon County, which had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023. That series does not publish village counts.

Fenwood's post office opened in 1892 and was discontinued in 1984.

The Town of Wien plan lists a cemetery in the Village of Fenwood among cemeteries near the town.

The Town of Wien plan says residents use parks in the Villages of Edgar and Fenwood, including a Village Park run by the Fenwood Lions Club.

Fenwood Creek, a named stream in Marathon County, runs north-south through the center of the Town of Wien. The state lists it as impaired for high phosphorus and degraded biology.

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad platted the Village of Fenwood in southern Wien in 1891. A sawmill was built but ran only until 1910, when dairy farming and cheese factories took over the local economy.

Fenwood incorporated as a village from part of the Town of Wien on April 16, 1904.

The village is named for woods near the townsite at a fen, a marshy area.

C. S. Curtis of Wausau built a large sawmill at Fenwood when the railroad arrived, and it sawed until 1910. A cheese factory owned by farmers from the Towns of Wien and Cleveland also operated in the village.