Village of Granton, Clark County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No primary source names a major employer in the Village of Granton.

The village's own channels are its website, TextMyGov and a Facebook page; no designated official newspaper was confirmed.

No hospital or medical clinic in the village was confirmed; the village lists a vet clinic.

The municipality is the Village of Granton, an incorporated village in Clark County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5530425).

Granton is an incorporated village; the Census also carries it as a county subdivision with GEOID 5501930425.

The village takes its name from the neighboring Town of Grant, a separate civil town; Village of Granton claims here apply only to the village (GEOID 5530425).

The village covers 0.545 square miles of land and 0.004 square miles of water.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.588311, -90.460426.

The village describes itself as set among farmland on the banks of O'Neill Creek, between Neillsville and Marshfield.

USGS GNIS lists Granton as a populated place in Clark County at 44.5888512, -90.4612469.

The 2020 Census counted 381 residents in the Village of Granton.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Granton's population at 370 as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimate for Granton is 370 as of July 1, 2024, from a 2020 estimates base of 382.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Granton's population is 368 (+/-95).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Granton is 28 years (+/-8).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Granton is $60,625 (+/-$9,549).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Granton is $114,800 (+/-$20,366).

The village is served by an elected board of three, each serving a two-year term.

John Garbisch is Village President (term expires April 2027).

Bryan Vine and Troy Moen are listed as trustees; the page lists Vine's term as expiring April 2026, so the roster may predate the April 2026 election.

Cole Minsaas is the appointed Clerk/Treasurer; the office is at 210 Maple Street, P.O. Box 69, phone 715-238-7339.

Ryan Wieselman is the appointed Waterworks Operator.

The board meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Office, 210 Maple Street, and meetings are open to the public.

The Village Office is open Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (closed noon to 1:00 p.m.) and Friday 8:00 a.m. to noon.

Agendas, minutes and motions post on the village website; the most recent agenda listed is for an August 12, 2026 regular board meeting.

The village launched TextMyGov, a text-message service for resident updates.

The Clerk-Treasurer's office is one full-time employee and handles water bills, licenses, building and fireworks permits, elections, property tax payments and cemetery lots.

The village ran a Main Street/County Trunk Highway K street and utility improvement project in 2024, with construction updates posted through September 22, 2024, and a proposed Main Street sidewalk project had public information materials posted in 2026.

The village runs its own waterworks and wastewater departments and posts an annual drinking water Consumer Confidence Report.

The Granton Area School District covers the village.

Granton Area School District (NCES 5505640) runs 2 schools from PK-12 and enrolled 249 students in 2024-25, with 20.07 FTE classroom teachers; NCES codes its locale Rural, Remote.

Granton Elementary and Granton High both sit at 217 N Main St in the village.

The village lists a bank, a grocery store, a hardware store, a restaurant, a bar, a barber shop, a metal crafter, a vet clinic and a daycare center inside village limits, with supper clubs, farm supply firms, cheese makers and an Amish community's greenhouses just outside.

For county context, Clark County had 779 business establishments and 9,517 paid employees in 2023, 3,947 of them in manufacturing.

The Tribune Record Gleaner, a Central Wisconsin News paper, serves the Loyal, Spencer, Greenwood and Granton areas and school districts.

The Tribune Record Gleaner's feed was publishing e-edition items as of September 16, 2026.

The Granton Community Library is at 217 N Main St; its director is Kay Heiting.

The village says a post office operates inside village limits; village addresses use ZIP 54436.

The Fall Festival opens with a dance in the Village Fire Station, confirming a village fire station; the fire and EMS provider was not named on a fetched page.

The village operates Windfall Cemetery, established in 1868.

Granton Community Park at 110 North Main Street hosts youth and high school baseball and softball leagues.

The village built Park View Campground at the park in 2017; it has 14 camper sites at $10 per night on self-registration, with no electricity at the sites.

Campers have walking access to shelters, a playground, basketball courts, the ball diamond, O'Neill Creek and the pond.

The Granton Fall Festival is held each year the weekend after Labor Day; in 2026 it ran Friday, September 11 through Sunday, September 13.

The festival opens Friday with a queen coronation and a dance, runs Saturday contests including a chalk walk, a Granton FFA fishing contest, a car cruise and a street dance, and closes Sunday with a church service, a chicken dinner, a grand parade and a truck pull.

The village hosts village-wide garage sales; the home page notice gave June 1-3 without a year.

The village says Eli Williams, from Pennsylvania, was the first settler in 1856, followed by J. D. Wage and Levi Marsh, and Nelson Marsh's family in 1857.

A stage route served the area until the railroad came through in 1891.

The 1915 Granton News history says an earlier post office at Nelson Marsh's farm and tavern, east of today's village, was named Mapleworks, and that the depot and the platted village followed a purchase of the Wage farm.

Wikipedia, citing a 1908 railroad place-names book, says Granton was founded in 1891 and that a Granton post office has operated since 1892.