Town of Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

The current town chair was not confirmed from an official source.

The town board's meeting schedule and where it posts agendas were not found in an official source.

No official website for the Town of Hull, Marathon County was found; the state MDS record lists email and phone only.

No named major employer located in the town was found in a primary source.

No newspaper of record for Hull notices was confirmed. The Tribune-Phonograph covers the neighboring Abbotsford and Colby area.

Fire and EMS coverage for the town was not confirmed. The neighboring City of Colby is served by the Central Fire & EMS District, formed in 2017 from the Colby, Abbotsford and Dorchester departments.

No hospital or clinic located in the town was confirmed from a source read this session.

No town park or named recreation asset in the town was confirmed from a source read this session.

The municipality is the Town of Hull, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507336325).

This Hull is the Marathon County town near Colby; the larger Town of Hull in Portage County (GEOID 5509736350, 5,287 residents in 2020) is a different municipality with its own website, townofhull.us.

The Town of Hull covers 32.542 square miles of land and 0.069 square miles of water.

The town's Census internal point is near 44.894944, -90.24834, in far western Marathon County.

The unincorporated community of Cherokee lies in the town.

The clerk's mailing address of record is in Unity, WI 54488.

The 2020 Census counted 756 residents in the Town of Hull.

The Wisconsin DOA's January 1, 2025 final estimate for the town is 760 residents.

The 2020 census recorded 286 households in the town, 40.2 percent of them with children under 18.

The ACS 2019-2023 five-year estimate of the town's population is 823 (margin of error +/-214).

The town's ACS 2019-2023 median age is 32.5 years (+/-7.6).

The town's ACS 2019-2023 median household income is $78,056 (+/-$14,679).

The town's ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes is $211,200 (+/-$25,839).

Hull is a civil town governed by a town board under Wisconsin's town form, not a city or village.

The state Municipal Data System lists Jenny Reynolds as Town Clerk (715-223-5881, [email address]).

The Colby School District covers about 96 percent of the town, and the Abbotsford School District covers the rest.

The Colby School District enrolled 930 students with 65.22 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers in 2024-2025 across four schools.

The Abbotsford School District enrolled 799 students with 58.59 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers in 2024-2025 across two schools.

Marathon County had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023, including 18,923 in manufacturing.

The 1913 county history describes Hull as a farming town, apart from one sawmill at Cherokee, supplying milk to five cheese factories.

No public library outlet is listed in the Town of Hull; the nearest listed outlet by name is the Colby Community Library in Colby.

Hull was established on March 3, 1873, the first town organized on 'the line' (the 1913 history's term), and covered township 28, range 2 east.

The town is named for David B. Hull, a pioneer settler who was also its first representative on the county board.

Homestead land near the railroad drew farmers quickly; by 1913 most were naturalized citizens of German and Slavic descent, with four school districts and Presbyterian and Methodist congregations.