Town of Marathon, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No major employer located in the Town of Marathon was found in a primary source.

The Record Review, a Central Wisconsin Publications weekly, posts its e-edition on centralwinews.com; a September 16, 2026 edition was online.

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

No town park or public trail inside the Town of Marathon was confirmed from a source read this session.

The civic calendar centers on the April annual meeting, the Board of Review and elections at the Town Hall; no community festival was confirmed.

The municipality is the Town of Marathon, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507349075).

Marathon is a town (civil town) governed by a town board of a chairman and two supervisors, not a city or village.

The Town of Marathon is a different municipality from the Village of Marathon City (GEOID 5507349100), a 3.243-square-mile incorporated village, and from Marathon County itself.

the Town of Marathon covers 32.676 square miles of land and 0.031 square miles of water.

the Town of Marathon's Census internal point is near 44.894266, -89.778017.

The 2020 Census counted 995 residents in the Town of Marathon.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates the Town of Marathon's population at 978 as of January 1, 2025.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of the Town of Marathon's population is 1,115 (+/-218).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in the Town of Marathon is 49.1 years (+/-10.8).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in the Town of Marathon is $100,417 (+/-$16,373).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in the Town of Marathon is $259,400 (+/-$27,240).

The town lies in the south central portion of Marathon County, and more than 80 percent of its land is cropland or forest.

County Highway N gives the town its main access to the Wausau area, and State Highway 107 runs north and south through it.

In 2015 woodlands covered 9,109 acres (43.6 percent) of the town and agriculture 7,098 acres (34.0 percent), out of 20,884 acres in total.

The Big Rib River, Artus Creek, Fourmile Creek and Kennedy Creek run through the town.

In 2010, 64.6 percent of Town of Marathon residents reported German as their first ancestry.

Keith Langenhan is Town Chairman.

Dave Krautkramer and Bernie Dick are Town Supervisors.

Kelley Blume is Town Clerk.

Beth Altenhofen is Town Treasurer.

The Town Board meets monthly on varying dates; 2026 meetings began at 6:15, 6:30 or 7:00 p.m., and the next listed meeting is October 14, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.

Agendas and minutes for each monthly meeting are posted as PDFs on the town website and are provided by the Town Clerk.

The Marathon Town Hall is at 224001 Marathon Rd, Marathon, WI 54448, at the southeast corner of County Road N and Marathon Road.

The town's official website is townofmarathonwi.gov.

The 2026 annual meeting of electors was set for Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 6:30 p.m., and the 2027 meeting for Tuesday, April 20, 2027 at 6:30 p.m.

The 2026 Board of Review was moved to June 22, 2026, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at the Town Hall.

Elections are held at the Marathon Town Hall; the November 3, 2026 general election runs 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Building permits are required and are issued through Marathon County Planning and Zoning (CPZ).

The town has a local historic preservation commission.

The Marathon City School District covers essentially all of the Town of Marathon.

Marathon City School District (NCES 5508670) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 770 students in 2024-25, based at 204 East St, Marathon.

The town's economy relies primarily on agriculture.

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

The South Area Fire and Emergency Response District (SAFER) provides fire and/or EMS and rescue service to the Town of Marathon.

Police service in the town is provided by the Marathon County Sheriff.

No public library outlet is listed in the Town of Marathon; the Marathon County Public Library runs a Marathon Branch in Marathon (City) and its main library in Wausau.

Wisconsin Public Service supplies electric power and some natural gas, and Frontier provides telephone service.

All development in the town is on private wells and on-site septic systems.

The Town Hall uses a Marathon, WI 54448 address.

The town sells cemetery sites to residents in a town cemetery next to St. Mary's and St. Matthew's cemeteries, formerly known as Potters Field.

The Town Hall rents to residents for $325, which includes a $200 security deposit.

The town sells Passing Along History, Town of Marathon, 1859-2009, a 214-page softbound sesquicentennial book, for $20 at the Town Hall.

The present Town of Marathon was created on April 5, 1859, out of parts of the town of Wausau, originally covering township 28 in ranges 2 through 6.

The Pittsburgh German Homestead Society, organized by Pittsburgh mill workers in 1856, bought 3,000 acres in what became the towns of Marathon and Cassel, and settlers followed in 1857.

By 1913 the town had four cheese factories and one small custom sawmill.

No property in the town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; six properties are in the Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory.