Village of Hatley, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Village of Hatley, an incorporated village in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5533175; county subdivision GEOID 5507333175; WI DOA code 37136).

A village board governs Hatley. The site lists a village president and two trustees, plus a clerk and a treasurer.

The village covers 0.976 square miles of land and no water area.

The Census internal point for Hatley is near 44.886494 N, 89.337101 W.

Hatley's GNIS / ANSI feature code is 01583364.

Hatley lies in eastern Marathon County along the State Highway 29 corridor, and the Plover River flows southwest through the village.

The village uses Hatley, WI 54440 (PO Box 99).

The 2020 Census counted 648 residents in Hatley.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates 685 residents as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate is 655, from a 2020 estimates base of 647.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population is 593, plus or minus 83.

The ACS 2019-2023 median age is 33.0 years, plus or minus 7.2, young for the county.

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $87,188, plus or minus $12,795.

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $196,700, plus or minus $14,500.

Hatley grew 20.6 percent from 2000 to 2010, faster than the county and state; the 2010 Census counted 574 residents.

David Narloch is Village President.

Joan Fraaza is Village Clerk (715-574-2597), and Joe Szews is Treasurer.

The village board meets the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. The village notes dates and times can change and points residents to current posted notices.

Monthly board minutes are posted on the village website. As of September 19, 2026, 2026 minutes were posted through June. Meeting notices are also posted, but the site does not name the posting locations.

The village contact line is 715-446-3435 and its email is [email address]

Hatley administers its own zoning code but no extraterritorial zoning. It runs its own water and sanitary sewer utilities and relies on the Marathon County Sheriff's Office for police protection and 911 dispatch.

The village has a tax incremental financing district and publishes its boundary and a recap document.

Hatley Elementary, a D.C. Everest Area School District school, is at 417 Emmonsville Rd.

The 2018 plan said Hatley-area students attended Easton for grades K-3 and Hatley Elementary for grades 4-5, with 104 students at Hatley in 2016-17. Wikipedia now describes Hatley Elementary as K-5 with one class per grade.

D.C. Everest (NCES 5513170) runs 12 schools from 6100 Alderson St., Weston, and enrolled 5,847 students in 2024-25.

Wikipedia describes Hatley Elementary as serving kindergarten through 5th grade with one class per grade.

Most residents commute out: the 2018 plan reports 7.2 percent of working residents worked in Hatley, 29.1 percent in Wausau, and 12.8 percent in the Village of Weston. Manufacturing was the largest industry of employment for residents, at 31.7 percent in 2010.

Businesses the village lists include Freddy's Hatley Smokehouse, Subway, Riteway & Stratford Propane, R-Store, Dollar General, S-K Service, Hatley Hangout, Banner Banks, and The Woody.

The village publishes a newsletter, The Villager.

The Hatley Branch of the Marathon County Public Library, at 435 Curtis Avenue, opened in June 2005 alongside a Community/Senior Center. It serves eastern Marathon County, including Bevent, Elderon, Hatley, Norrie, Reid, and Ringle, and is open Monday through Saturday.

IMLS lists a Hatley Branch public library outlet in Hatley, Marathon County.

The village rents its Community Center for $50 to residents and $150 to non-residents, plus a $100 deposit. Senior, youth, and nonprofit groups pay no charge.

The Hatley Area Fire and Ambulance District, expanded in 1998, covers the village and the surrounding towns of Elderon, Bevent, and Reid, plus part of Norrie. Brandon Damask is Fire Chief and Penny Esker is Ambulance Chief.

A post office was established in Hatley on December 13, 1881, and the village says it is still in service for surrounding communities.

GNIS records Hatley as a populated place in Marathon County at 44.8874704, -89.3387272.

The village has three park and recreation areas, plus a full-size basketball court at the Community Center. Playgrounds are at St. Florian Parish, Hatley Elementary, and Legion Memorial Park.

The Plover River flows through the western part of the village and is used for fishing, tubing, and paddling.

The Mountain-Bay State Trail passes through the area on a former Chicago & North Western line and runs 83 miles from Weston to Howard across Marathon, Shawano, and Brown counties.

The village links the Hatley Braves baseball team's website and schedule.

The 2018 plan names Wisconsin Public Service for natural gas and electricity, Frontier North for telephone, and Charter Communications for wired broadband. The village runs a wastewater treatment facility.

The village site traces its land to two federal grants signed by President James Buchanan: to John Z. Smith on May 27, 1857, and to Stanley C. Rogers on April 11, 1859.

Early businesses lined Clark Street, parallel to the railroad, and Curtis Avenue: hotels, hardware and general stores, a bank, a cheese factory, blacksmiths, an opera house, and dealerships.

Hatley was named by Canadian lumberman Matthew Wadleigh after his home of Hatley, Quebec.

The Lake Shore Traffic Company (later the Chicago and North Western) built a rail line through the village in 1879, and Hatley grew around it.

Early industry was sawmills: R.E. Parcher's mill in 1888 on the site of today's ball park, J.A. Porter's mill around 1895 (halted by a 1910 fire), and another mill around 1913.

Hatley was incorporated as a village on December 3, 1912. Immigrants, mostly from eastern Poland, settled there in the early 1900s.

Verne and Donald Pickering wrote a village history, "Hatley: History of a Central Wisconsin Village".