City of Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

The Common Council meets on Tuesday evenings at City Hall; the regular recurring schedule (which Tuesdays and what time) could not be confirmed from a fetchable official source.

The city publishes Common Council agendas, minutes, packets and videos on its own website, which Wausau Wire cannot crawl; no CivicClerk tenant for Marshfield was found.

A ranked list of Marshfield's largest employers with headcounts was not found in a fetchable primary source.

Fire and EMS service in the city is provided by the Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department.

The municipality is the City of Marshfield, an incorporated city in Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5549675).

Marshfield is a city governed by a mayor and a Common Council, not a town or village.

The City of Marshfield spans two counties: most of it lies in Wood County and a smaller part lies in Marathon County.

The City of Marshfield is distinct from the Town of Marshfield, a separate civil town in Wood County (county-subdivision GEOID 5514149700) with a 2020 Census population of 763.

The City of Marshfield covers 13.801 square miles of land and 0.027 square miles of water.

Of the city's land area, about 11.768 square miles lie in Wood County and about 2.033 square miles lie in Marathon County.

The Census internal point for the City of Marshfield is near 44.6633 N, 90.1717 W.

USGS GNIS records Marshfield as a named populated place in Wood County at about 44.6689 N, 90.1718 W.

Marshfield is not the Wood County seat; the Wood County Courthouse is at 400 Market Street in Wisconsin Rapids, and the county lists a separate Marshfield office phone line.

City government, library, hospital and school-district addresses in Marshfield use ZIP code 54449.

The 2020 Census counted 18,929 residents in the City of Marshfield across both county parts.

The Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official estimate for the City of Marshfield is 19,090.

The Wood County part of Marshfield counted 18,119 residents in 2020, with a 2025 DOA estimate of 17,928.

The Marathon County part of Marshfield counted 810 residents in 2020, with a 2025 DOA estimate of 1,162.

The Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimate for Marshfield city is 18,973 as of July 1, 2024.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Marshfield's total population is 18,718 (margin of error plus or minus 195).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median age in Marshfield is 43.1 years (margin of error plus or minus 1.9).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median household income in Marshfield is $59,294 (margin of error plus or minus $4,006).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median value of owner-occupied homes in Marshfield is $169,900 (margin of error plus or minus $9,265).

The City Clerk of record is Jessica Schiferl (phone 715-486-2022).

Marshfield City Hall, the clerk's mailing address and the Common Council meeting place, is at 207 West 6th Street.

The city's official website is cityofmarshfieldwi.gov.

The city website's robots.txt disallows all automated agents other than five named search and social crawlers, so its agendas, minutes and department pages are not machine-readable to Wausau Wire.

The mayor of Marshfield is Nick Poeschel, according to August 2026 local reporting.

The city employs a City Administrator; Steve Barg held the post as of August 2026.

Jennifer Selenske is the city finance director and Josh Mauritz is the city public works director, per August 2026 council coverage.

On Aug. 25, 2026, the Common Council heard the first reading of an ordinance that would impose a $25 local vehicle registration fee, which the finance director said could begin generating revenue in 2027.

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Public schools are run by the School District of Marshfield (NCES name Marshfield Unified School District, NCES ID 5508820), headquartered at 1010 E Fourth St.

The district enrolled 3,626 students with 238.93 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers in the 2024-2025 school year, a student/teacher ratio of 15.18.

The district superintendent is Dr. Ryan Christianson.

The district's board calendar lists a Regular Board of Education Meeting on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.

NCES lists eight district schools with Marshfield mailing addresses: Marshfield High (1401 E Becker Rd), Marshfield Middle (900 E 4th St), Marshfield K4 (1010 E Fourth St), and Grant, Lincoln, Madison, Washington and Nasonville elementary schools.

Mid-State Technical College operates a Marshfield Campus at 2600 West 5th Street.

UW-Stevens Point operates a Marshfield campus, UW-Stevens Point at Marshfield, with its Solution Center in the AG Felker Student Center at 2000 W. 5th Street.

The Helen Connor Laird Fine Arts Center on the UW-Stevens Point at Marshfield campus, owned by Wood County, will be renovated starting in fall 2027 with a $2 million WEDC grant and $400,000 from the Laird Endowment for the Arts.

Marshfield Clinic is Wood County's largest employer, with over 2,000 workers, according to the state's 2025 county workforce profile.

Education and health services was the largest industry in Wood County in 2023, at 28.8% of 36,609 total jobs.

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Roehl Transport, a national trucking company founded in 1962 by Everett Roehl, is headquartered in Marshfield.

The Hub City Times is Marshfield's local newspaper, published weekly in print and online daily from an office at 211 S. Central Ave., Suite B.

The Hub City Times belongs to a group of central Wisconsin papers that includes the Merrill Foto News, Stevens Point Gazette, The City Pages, Wausau Times and Wisconsin Rapids City Times.

Derrian Braun became news editor of the Hub City Times in September 2026.

WDLB (1450 AM, also heard at 98.7 FM) is a Marshfield radio station owned by Central Wisconsin Broadcasting that runs a local news desk and community calendar.

FCC records list seven broadcast facilities whose community of license is Marshfield: WDLB (AM 1450), WYTE (FM 106.5), and FM translators W217BO, W228DH, W236CO, W254DL and W265DC.

The Marshfield News-Herald, branded News-Herald Media at marshfieldnewsherald.com, serves Marshfield as part of Gannett's USA TODAY Network; its publishing schedule and staffing were not verified.

Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield, at 611 N Saint Joseph Ave, is open 24/7 and provides a Level II trauma center, a children's hospital, an intensive care unit and a neonatal intensive care unit.

Marshfield Clinic describes the Marshfield medical center as its flagship, serving patients from throughout central, northern and western Wisconsin.

Family Health Center operates three HRSA-supported health center sites in Marshfield, including a primary care center and an alcohol and drug recovery center at 630 S Central Ave and a dental center at 1307 N Saint Joseph Ave.

The Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library is at 105 S. Maple Ave (phone 715-387-8494).

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A USPS post office currently serving Marshfield was not confirmed from a USPS source; the historic Marshfield Post Office building was listed on the National Register on October 24, 2000.

The Marshfield Heritage Museum is at 211 E. 2nd Street, Lower Level, with free admission, and adjoins the Stierle Bird Exhibit.

Visit Marshfield, the city's tourism organization, is at 700 S. Central Ave. and promotes the city under the tagline 'Marshfield Made New'.

Downtown Marshfield's Central Avenue is lined with brick commercial buildings built after an 1887 fire destroyed much of the wooden town.

Main Street Marshfield presents downtown programming, including a Hub City Concert Series show during Hub City Days on July 24, 2026.

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Wildwood Park & Zoo, at 608 W. 17th Street, was established in 1937 and covers more than 150 acres with walking trails and a drive-through large animal area.

Wildwood Zoo is home to twin Kodiak bears, Munsey and Boda, which arrived from Alaska in October 2015 as orphaned cubs.

Vandehey Waters Outdoor Aquatic Center at 1900 S. Central Avenue replaced the former Hefko Pool.

Wenzel Family Plaza, at Second and Chestnut streets downtown, hosts the summer Hub City Concert Series on the Everett & Dolores Roehl Stage.

The Marshfield Fairgrounds house the Marshfield Area Ice Arena, the Marshfield Curling Club and softball fields.

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Wood County's Marshfield Community Bike Share program has run for nearly 10 years and was announced in 2026 to be changing format.

Jurustic Park, an outdoor sculpture park of rusted-metal creatures, sits five miles north of Marshfield, outside the city.

The Central Wisconsin State Fair is held each summer at the Marshfield Fairgrounds, 513 East 17th Street; the 2026 fair ran August 25-30.

Dairyfest, held annually the weekend after Memorial Day, honors agriculture and local dairy farmers with a breakfast at the fairgrounds, a parade and a picnic in the park.

Hub City Days is a summer downtown festival; in 2026 it coincided with the July 24 Hub City Concert Series show.

The World's Largest Round Barn on the fairgrounds, built in 1916, measures 150 feet in diameter and 70 feet high and still shows purebred animals during the state fair.

Marshfield's main road arteries are US Highway 10 and State Highways 13 and 97.

The city is served by Marshfield Municipal Airport (Roy Shwery Field) at 400 W. 29th Street; Visit Marshfield also lists Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee for air travel.

Marshfield traces its origin to 1872, when the Wisconsin Central Railroad built its line between Stevens Point and Lake Superior and needed a supply depot here.

The first permanent structure in Marshfield was a two-room log hotel built by Louis Rivers as a supply depot for the railroad.

Marshfield was incorporated as a city in 1883; Wikipedia gives the date as April 4, 1883.

The city's name is associated with John J. Marsh, a Massachusetts resident who donated 500 books in 1881 as part of his bid for the naming rights.

A fire in 1887 destroyed much of Marshfield's wooden town; Wikipedia dates it to June 27, 1887 and attributes it to a train spark in the Upham mill lumberyard.

Marshfield is nicknamed the 'Hub City', a name Wikipedia attributes to the many rail lines that converged there; the name carries on in the Hub City Times and Hub City Days.

Marshfield's health care history includes St. Joseph's Hospital, which opened in 1890 with six beds, and Marshfield Clinic, formed in 1916 by six doctors in a downtown group practice.

Sixteen National Register of Historic Places listings are recorded under Marshfield, including the Gov. William H. Upham House (1976), the Marshfield Central Avenue Historic District (1993) and Soo Line Steam Locomotive 2442 (2009).

Marshfield celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2022.