Village of Hewitt, Wood County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the Village of Hewitt, an incorporated village in northern Wood County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5534250).

The Village of Hewitt in Wood County is not the Town of Hewitt in Marathon County (GEOID 5507334225, 636 residents in 2020), and Hewitt-Texas Elementary in the Wausau School District belongs to the Marathon County area, not this village.

The village covers 0.931 square miles of land and no water area.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.642486, -90.104834, east of the City of Marshfield.

Village addresses use the Hewitt ZIP code 54441.

The 2020 Census counted 796 residents in the Village of Hewitt.

The Wisconsin DOA's January 1, 2025 final estimate for the village is 797 residents.

The village had 828 residents in 2010, so it has lost about 4 percent of its population since.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for the village is 795, unchanged from its 2020 estimates base.

The ACS 2019-2023 five-year estimate of the village's population is 791 (margin of error +/-179).

The village's ACS 2019-2023 median age is 45.9 years (+/-14.2).

The village's ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $89,013 (+/-$9,729).

The village's ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $207,100 (+/-$32,129).

A village president and four trustees govern Hewitt. Marlene Stueland is Village President, and the trustees are Cassie Horn, Tom Iwanski, Dan Sommers and Travis Wienke.

Mary Burr is the appointed village clerk (715-751-9391, [email address]), and Heather Gehrt is the appointed treasurer; James Kurtzweil is the assessor.

Village offices are in the Village of Hewitt Administration Building, 11064 Main St., Hewitt, WI 54441.

The Wood County Directory lists the village website as www.vi.hewitt.wi.gov.

Village of Hewitt voters cast ballots at the Marshfield Town Hall, 11133 Main St., Hewitt; Wood County polls open 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Hewitt sits in Wood County Board District 6, represented by Supervisor Allen W. Breu.

The village's 2025 equalized value is $91,603,200, about 1.1 percent of Wood County's total.

The Marshfield Unified School District covers the village.

The Marshfield Unified School District enrolled 3,626 students with 238.93 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers in 2024-2025 across eight schools.

No public school with a Hewitt address appears in the NCES 2023-24 school geocode file.

Wood County had 1,717 business establishments and 34,252 paid employees in 2023, including 9,944 in health care and social assistance and 5,677 in manufacturing.

The Hewitt Area Volunteer Fire Department is all-volunteer, led by a seven-officer command staff, with a chief appointed by the Hewitt Area Fire Commission and mutual aid with Marshfield, Auburndale and nearby towns.

No public library outlet is listed in the village; the Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library in Marshfield is the nearest listed outlet by name.

Hewitt grew from a Wisconsin Central Railroad station established in 1872 and named for lumberman Henry Hewitt Sr.

Settlers arrived in 1877 from Dodge, Marathon, Calumet and Sheboygan counties; Frank Cramer opened a blacksmith shop in 1878, and a post office opened in 1883 as Kreuser before taking the station's name.

Around 1883 the Fond du Lac Iron Company built ten charcoal kilns by the tracks, turning hardwood bought from local farmers into charcoal for its smelter.

USGS GNIS lists Hewitt as a populated place in Wood County at 44.6450, -90.1001.