Town of Halsey, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

The names of the town chairman and supervisors were not found in a source reached this session.

The Town Board's meeting schedule and meeting place were not found in a source reached this session.

Where the town posts agendas and legal notices was not found in a source reached this session.

No list of major employers located in the Town of Halsey was found in a primary source.

No newspaper or broadcast outlet specific to the Town of Halsey was named in any source read this session.

The fire and EMS provider for the town was not found in a source reached this session.

The law enforcement provider for the town was not stated in any source reached this session.

No hospital or clinic in the town was found in a source reached this session.

No park, trail, lake, or other recreation asset inside the town was found in a source reached this session.

No recurring community event for the town was found in a source reached this session.

The Town of Halsey is a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, Census county subdivision GEOID 5507332150 (USGS GNIS 01583337).

The Town of Halsey covers 33.14 square miles of land and 0.001 square miles of water.

The town's Census internal point is near 45.082284, -90.027269.

The 2020 Census counted 634 residents in the Town of Halsey.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates the Town of Halsey's population at 656 as of January 1, 2025, a change of +22 from 2020.

DOA estimates 446 voting-age residents in the Town of Halsey for 2025 (428 at the 2020 Census).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of the Town of Halsey's population is 675 (+/-165).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in the Town of Halsey is 44.8 years (+/-17.2).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in the Town of Halsey is $86,875 (+/-$7,041).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in the Town of Halsey is $243,800 (+/-$59,971).

The state Municipal Data System lists the Town of Halsey (DOA code 37034) clerk as Annette Kremsreiter, phone 715-297-9363, with a mailing address of 124970 County Rd L, Athens, WI 54411-5034 (record last updated 2/16/2026).

Marathon County had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023, including 18,923 in manufacturing and 10,570 in health care and social assistance.

The nearest public library outlet in the IMLS file to the town's internal point is the Athens Branch (Marathon County Public Library) at 221 Caroline St., Athens (about 4.1 miles straight-line).

The state Municipal Data System records the municipality as 'T Halsey', DOA code 37034, in Marathon County.

Halsey is the only Wisconsin minor civil division by that name in the DOA 2025 estimates file, so no same-name town or village elsewhere needs disambiguating.

Halsey's Census internal point (45.082284, -90.027269) lies about 4 miles from the Athens Branch library, and town clerk and school addresses use Athens, WI 54411.

One GNIS feature point falls inside the town: the primary point of Stony Creek (GNIS 1574950, 45.0902443, -89.995411), which GNIS assigns to Marinette County on the Hamburg quadrangle. No populated place or lake point falls inside, and the Census records only 0.001 square miles of water.

An election-office directory lists Annette Kremsreiter as municipal clerk at 124970 County Rd L, phone (715) 297-9363, matching the state record.

The MDS clerk email uses the domain townofhalseywi.gov, but that domain did not resolve when probed this session, so no official town website was reached.

The Athens School District covers the whole Town of Halsey.

Athens School District (NCES 5500570) is a PK-12 district of 4 schools with 417 students in 2024-25, based at 601 West Limits Road, Athens.

The district's schools are Athens Elementary (209 N Schlegel St), Athens Middle and Athens High (601 W Village Limits Rd), and Maple Grove School (135594 County Road L, Athens).

The town clerk's mailing address uses Athens, WI 54411; no post office inside the town was confirmed.

The Wisconsin Historical Society holds a township plat of Halsey from a Marathon County atlas published in Wausau between 1905 and 1917, showing landownership, roads, railroads, churches, schools, town halls, creameries, and saw mills.

Wikipedia says the town is named for Pierson Halsey, a partner in the Milwaukee law firm of Rietbrock, Halsey and Johnson, which founded Athens.

Wikipedia says Halsey was set off from the Town of Hamburg in 1883.