Village of Gresham, Shawano County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Village of Gresham in Shawano County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5531675; county subdivision GEOID 5511531675; WI DOA code 59131).

This is Gresham, Wisconsin, not Gresham, Oregon; the greshamwi.com domain redirected to visit-gresham.us, whose relationship to the village was not confirmed, while the village's own site is visit-gresham.com.

The village covers 1.141 square miles of land and 0.071 square miles of water.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.84861, -88.786076.

The Red River winds through Gresham, forming the Upper and Lower Red Lakes, created by damming the river in 1880 and 1965.

The 2020 Census counted 530 residents in the Village of Gresham.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Gresham's population at 530 as of January 1, 2025; the Census Vintage 2024 estimate is 535 for July 1, 2024.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Gresham's population is 571 (+/-117).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Gresham is 38.6 years (+/-10.8).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Gresham is $48,750 (+/-$13,359).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Gresham is $120,100 (+/-$30,642).

The village board is President Rick Giese and Trustees Blaine Ebert, Brett Nelson, Tom Madsen, Michelle Martinez, Art Bahr, and Brett Hoffman.

Judy Kristof is Clerk/Treasurer at the Village Hall, 801 Main Street ([email address]); the state MDS record lists Judith Kristof, 715-787-3991.

Village board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Village Hall, 801 Main Street; the September 15, 2026 regular meeting followed the Finance and Administration Committee meeting.

The village posts agendas and minutes on its Government page for the board and for Finance and Administration, Planning, Public Works, Personnel, Electric, and Protective Services committees, plus a Fire Board.

The September 15, 2026 board agenda included DNR phosphorus requirements and professional-services agreements with CBS Squared Inc. for a wastewater treatment plant upgrade.

The official village website is visit-gresham.com; the village phone listed there is 715-787-3244.

The village operates its own electric utility, which includes a hydroelectric plant on the Red River that the village says generates about 22 percent of its electricity, plus water and sewer utilities.

The village lies within the Gresham School District (NCES 5500056), a PK-12 district of 2 schools with 291 students in 2024-25, at 501 Schabow St, Gresham.

Gresham Elementary and Gresham High share the address 501 Schabow St, Gresham.

The village describes tourism as the industry that has replaced its earlier logging and manufacturing base.

Shawano County had 892 business establishments and 10,135 paid employees in 2023, including 2,429 in manufacturing.

North Star Casino and Resort sponsors the village website and is listed among nearby places on the village Tourism page.

TCH Daily News (Results Broadcasting, whose stations include WTCH 960) covers Gresham, including a September 14, 2026 story on the Gresham Scholarship Fund's October 13 annual board meeting at the Abby Bank board room.

Police service for Gresham is listed on the village Emergency page as the Mohican Nation Police Department (non-emergency 715-526-3111), based at W13455 Camp 14 Road, Bowler.

The Gresham Fire Department is at 1300 N Main Street; ambulance service is listed as Shawano Ambulance Service, 220 N. Main Street, Shawano.

The Gresham Depot Museum is listed as a thing to see on the village Tourism page.

The village says seven smaller lakes, trout streams, and woodlands surround Gresham, and the Red Lakes Management District, created in 2004, manages the Upper and Lower Red Lakes.

Places listed on the village Tourism page include Pine Grove Campground, Captains' Cove Resort, and Annie's Campground.

The Gresham Area Advancement Association, a volunteer economic development group, runs beautification work, the Miles of Art event, Bike the Barn Quilts, an annual plant sale, and the Fourth of July parade, and has hung about 60 quilt squares.

The village history says Gresham was named for T. R. Gresham, Postmaster General in President Arthur's cabinet, when the first post office opened in the village in 1885.

Gresham was incorporated as a village on November 9, 1908, by a vote of 38 to 3, with 330 residents at the time.

Richard Brothers converted their water power and grist mill into a hydroelectric plant in 1910, and the village bought it by ordinance in 1917 to run its own Municipal Light and Power Plant.

The Lutheran Indian Mission, recorded by the National Park Service under Gresham at 'NE of Gresham on WI G', was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 1980, for education and religion.