Town of Hamburg, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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

No designated official newspaper for town notices was confirmed; the town posts agendas online.

The municipality is the Town of Hamburg, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507332200).

Wisconsin has a second Town of Hamburg, in Vernon County (Chaseburg, DOA code 63018); its site tn.hamburg.wi.gov and officials belong to that town, not to this one.

Hamburg is a town governed by a chair and two supervisors.

The Town of Hamburg covers 35.349 square miles of land and no measurable water area.

The town's Census internal point is near 45.076468, -89.90437.

The town describes itself as a safe, rural community in northwestern Marathon County and part of the Wausau metropolitan statistical area.

USGS GNIS lists a populated place named Hamburg in Marathon County at 45.0905, -89.8851, a named community inside the civil town.

State Highway 107 borders the town and County Highways A, F, FF and S run through it.

The 2020 Census counted 827 residents in the Town of Hamburg.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Hamburg's population at 832 as of January 1, 2025.

The town's home page says Hamburg currently has 934 residents, a figure above both the 2020 Census count and the DOA estimate.

The 2013 town plan reports 918 residents and 341 households in 2010, up from 760 residents in 1970.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Hamburg's population is 858 (+/-204).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Hamburg is 43.9 years (+/-9.4).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Hamburg is $94,271 (+/-$14,149).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Hamburg is $235,300 (+/-$17,190).

Eric Vogel is Town Chair.

John Stubbe and Jordan Artus are Town Supervisors.

Dawn Czech is Town Clerk (715-536-3638).

The Wisconsin Municipal Data System clerk record for the Town of Hamburg, Marathon County lists Dawn Czech, 715-536-3638, [email address]

Teri Tucker is Town Treasurer.

Kurt Moeller is the town's assessor.

The Town Board meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m.; dates are subject to change.

Board meetings are held at the Hamburg Municipal Building; the Town Hall at 240131 Schoolhouse Lane, Marathon, is also the polling place.

Agendas and monthly minutes post on the town website's Agenda/Minutes page, with minutes archived back to 2018 and older records held by the clerk.

The official website is townofhamburgmcwi.gov; the older townofhamburg.org domain still redirects but is being phased out.

In 2026 the town board took up Ordinance 2026-2 setting speed limits on town highways.

The chair reported in December 2025 that three large culverts at the east end of Nauguart Drive are failing; the town's share of replacement exceeds $80,000, about a full year's usual road budget, with Marathon County splitting costs through its culvert aid program.

The town contracts with Waste Management for weekly Friday garbage and recycling pickup at $26.35 a month, added to the tax bill.

The town plows and sands its roads, and the supervisors and road crew usually resurface 3 to 5 miles a year; the chair expects only a mile or two in 2026 because of the culvert project.

The town offers plowing and sanding on town roads.

About 99.8 percent of the town's area lies in the School District of Athens, with a sliver in the Marathon City School District; the town's links page lists both districts.

The School District of Athens (NCES 5500570) runs 4 schools from PK-12 and enrolled 417 students in 2024-25.

Maple Grove Charter School, a K-5 charter at 135594 County Road L, is listed by NCES under the School District of Athens with 94 students in 2024-25; the town's 2013 plan counts the school among historic buildings inside Hamburg.

The town dates Maple Grove School to 1904 and calls it one of the symbols of Hamburg; the Walter and Mabel Fromm Scholarship goes to students who attend Maple Grove and graduate from Merrill High School.

The 2013 town plan says dairy operations make up most of the town's agriculture, and residents were then employed first in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting.

For county context, Marathon County had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023.

The Record-Review, a weekly, covers the Athens, Edgar, Marathon and Stratford areas and school districts, including the Athens district that serves nearly all of Hamburg.

The Hamburg Fire Department, founded in 1961, is an all-volunteer department of firefighters and emergency medical responders.

Ryan Debroux is Fire Chief; the fire department meets the third Tuesday and the emergency medical responders the third Monday of each month.

The 2013 plan records mutual aid agreements with Athens, Corning, Maine, Marathon and Edgar, and an arrangement under which the Town of Athens provides ambulance service.

Hamburg addresses use the Athens (54411) and Marathon (54448) ZIP codes; no post office inside the town was confirmed.

No library is located in the town; the 2013 plan points to libraries in Athens, Marathon, Edgar, Wausau and Merrill.

The Town Hall rents a small room for about 50 people and a large room for about 100.

Waterways in the town include the Big Rib River, the West Fork of the Little Rib River, and McGinnis and Grass Creeks; a large stretch of Grass Creek is designated an Exceptional Resource Water.

Hamburg marks its 150th year in 2026, and the chair proposed celebrating during the Fire Department Tractor Pull in June.

The Town of Hamburg was established February 10, 1876, set apart from the Town of Berlin, and its early settlers were largely German emigrants from Pomerania.

The 1913 county history names Carl Kleinschmidt as the town's first chairman and says the town originally took in township 30, ranges 3, 4 and 5.

The 2013 town plan says the original town spanned township 30 north, ranges 3, 4 and 5 east, including the present towns of Bern and Halsey.

The Fromm brothers began growing ginseng in 1904 and expanded into fox farming; the town says by 1929 they were the world's largest producer of both.

Two Hamburg properties are on the National Register of Historic Places: the Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm (listed November 6, 2013) and the Walter and Mabel Fromm House (listed June 17, 1982).