Village of Lublin, Taylor County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

A list of major employers located in the Village of Lublin could not be anchored to a fetched primary source.

No hospital or clinic in Lublin was identified; the nearest HRSA-supported site in Taylor County in the sealed bulk section is the Family Health Center Medford Dental Center.

Lublin is an incorporated village in Taylor County, Wisconsin, recorded by the Census Bureau as Lublin village (place GEOID 5546150, GNIS/PLACENS 01583605).

The village is also its own county subdivision in Taylor County (GEOID 5511946150), so its place and county-subdivision records describe the same 117-person area.

The village describes itself as a small village in the southeastern section of Taylor County, twelve miles northeast of four-lane Highway 29 (north of Thorp) and five miles south of State Highway 64.

Lublin covers 1.524 square miles of land and no water, centered near 45.074915, -90.723808.

GNIS records Lublin as a named populated place in Taylor County at 45.0771928, -90.7245781.

The nearest named lakes in GNIS are Diamond Lake (45.1082512, -90.6801197) and a Mud Lake (45.103241, -90.6914229), both in Taylor County north and northeast of the village.

The 2020 census counted 117 residents and 72 housing units in the Village of Lublin.

The Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official estimate for the Village of Lublin is 111.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Lublin village is 112, from a 2020 estimates base of 116.

Lublin's decennial census count was 209 in 1920, 161 in 1950, 142 in 1980, 110 in 2000, 118 in 2010 and 117 in 2020.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median age in Lublin is 56.1 years (margin of error +/-2.1).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median household income in Lublin is $45,625 (margin of error +/-$26,632).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median value of owner-occupied homes in Lublin is $122,500 (margin of error +/-$25,947).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year population estimate is 99 (margin of error +/-24), below the 2020 census count of 117; use the census and DOA figures for headcount.

Lublin is governed by a village board led by a village president with trustees, and employs a clerk, a treasurer position and a sewer department manager.

Christine Nowak is the Village President, Christine Compagnone is a listed Trustee, Rita Niznik is the Village Clerk, and Steve Apfelbeck is the Sewer Department Manager.

The village board holds a regular monthly meeting at the Lublin Village Hall; the September 2026 meeting was Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 6:00 p.m., and each agenda sets the next month's date.

Agendas are posted at the Lublin Village Hall, the Lublin Post Office and the village website.

The Village Clerk is available by appointment only at 715-669-3547, and handles Village Hall, park, pavilion and ball field rentals.

The Village Hall is at N1217 Railroad Street, with mail to P.O. Box 1, Lublin, WI 54447.

The village's official website is villageoflublin.com.

The village's 2026 Board of Review scheduled open book on September 10, 2026 and the Board of Review on September 24, 2026, each 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Village Hall.

The village's ordinance index includes ATV/UTV, snowmobile, noxious weed, lawn and grass, and public nuisance (No. 2022-02) ordinances.

The village operates a sewer department with its own accounts and a monthly sewer manager's report to the board.

Lublin children attend the Gilman School District, a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 360 students in 2024-25, based at 325 N 5th Ave, Gilman, in Taylor County.

Lublin's own school closed in the 1970s and its students were bused to Gilman.

Taylor County had 482 business establishments and 6,986 paid employees in 2023, including 2,627 in manufacturing and 940 in health care and social assistance.

The village's online business directory lists one entry, the Lublin Post Office; the village says it offers residential and commercial property for sale and encourages manufacturing and business development.

The Star News (centralwinews.com) publishes Taylor County-area news, including a Village of Gilman story posted September 16, 2026.

The nearest licensed broadcast station by community of license is WVCS (FM 90.1) in Owen, about 12 miles southeast; Medford, about 19 miles east, is the community of license for WIGM (AM 1490), WKEB (FM 99.3), and translators W254BB and W296DL.

The village points residents to the Western Taylor County Public Library in Gilman, a member of the Wisconsin Valley Library Service.

Lublin has its own post office (715-669-3091), open weekday mornings and briefly on Saturday, under ZIP code 54447.

The village directs residents to dial 911 for fire and emergency medical service and lists the Taylor County Sheriff's Department in Medford for law enforcement; the fire department that responds to Lublin is not named.

American Legion Post 547 (Abramowicz-Kaczmarczyk-Cwikla) is at W13315 South Street, Lublin, and meets the third Thursday of each month at 8:00 p.m.

Three churches serve Lublin: St. Stanislaus Catholic Church next to the community park, Holy Assumption Orthodox Church at N1249 County Road F, and St. Mary's Polish National Catholic Church at N1235 West Street.

Holy Assumption Orthodox Church, a parish of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the Midwest, was founded in 1908 by Carpatho-Russian immigrants.

Lublin Park and Pavilion has picnic and grilling facilities, playground equipment and indoor restrooms, and the village also has a ball field and a volleyball court available for rental.

The village's tourism page points visitors to Chippewa Campground on the Chequamegon Waters Flowage, the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Miller Dam and the Ice Age Trail, all outside the village.

Lublin Days 2026 was scheduled for Friday through Sunday, July 24-26, 2026.

The village celebrated its 100th year in July 2015.

Land agent Marion Durski surveyed the village site in 1904 or 1905 along the new Owen-to-Ladysmith railroad line and named it after the city of Lublin in southeast Poland.

Lublin incorporated as a village in 1915, with 236 people.

The 1905 state census counted 275 people in the surrounding Town of Roosevelt, with 80 percent of heads of household reporting Poland, Poland-Russia or Poland-Germany as their birthplace.

The Wisconsin Historical Society holds the 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County (Geo. A. Ogle & Co.), which contains plats of the county's villages, including an early plat of Lublin.