City of Pittsville, Wood County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

The Common Council's regular meeting day and time were not confirmed from a readable source; the only minutes file located is a scanned PDF with no text layer.

No ranked list of Pittsville's largest employers with headcounts was found in a primary source.

No hospital or clinic located in the city was confirmed.

The year Pittsville incorporated as a city was not confirmed from a source read this session.

The municipality is the City of Pittsville, an incorporated city in Wood County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5563100).

Pittsville is a city with a mayor and common council.

The city covers 1.987 square miles of land and 0.01 square miles of water.

The city's Census internal point is near 44.441673, -90.136571.

Governor Kohler proclaimed Pittsville the geographical center of Wisconsin on June 27, 1952; the city says the spot can be viewed from the east side of the County Highway E bridge.

The city lies near and along the Yellow River.

The 2020 Census counted 813 residents in the City of Pittsville.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Pittsville's population at 822 as of January 1, 2025.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Pittsville city is 808, from a 2020 estimates base of 809.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Pittsville's population is 829 (+/-116).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Pittsville is 46.4 years (+/-8).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Pittsville is $59,773 (+/-$3,522).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Pittsville is $117,300 (+/-$7,002).

Mark Darr is Mayor.

Casey Krohn is Council President; alderpersons are Michael Hobbs, Dan Schooley, Robert Schooley Jr., Brian Kissner and Dennis Todd.

Renee Losievski is City Clerk/Treasurer (715-884-2422); Angela Krueger is Deputy Clerk/Treasurer.

The Wisconsin Municipal Data System lists Renee Losievski as Pittsville's clerk, PO Box 100, Pittsville, with email [email address]

Harold Wolfgram is City Attorney and Greg Schmidt City Assessor; Three C's Construction Consultants handles building inspection.

Peter Petersen is Director of Public Works.

City Hall is at 5318 First Avenue (PO Box 100), open weekdays 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Residents who want an item on the council agenda call the clerk the Thursday before the meeting.

The city's site offers an email and text subscription for news, agendas, minutes and packets, with an Agendas & Minutes page on the HeyGov platform.

Pittsville has its own police department (non-emergency 715-884-2100).

In September 2026 the city notified residents that TDS is expanding fiber connections in the area.

The Census places the whole city inside the Pittsville School District.

Pittsville School District (NCES 5511790) runs 2 schools from PK-12 and enrolled 541 students in 2024-25.

Pittsville Elementary (5459 Elementary Ave) and Pittsville High (5407 First Ave) are the district's public schools in the city.

The city lists crop production, dairying, cranberry production and processing, forestry, trucking, pallet production, steel fabrication and the paper industry as the area's primary industries.

The Pittsville Community Development Authority received a $90,000 WEDC grant to distribute to businesses in its trade area.

For county context, Wood County had 1,717 business establishments and 34,252 paid employees in 2023.

The Pittsville Record is a locally owned weekly published every Thursday, serving the greater Pittsville area since 1909.

The city's history traces the Record to the Pittsville Independent (1883) and the Yellow River Pilot, and says C. M. McKee bought the paper in 1909.

The Pittsville Community Library is a public library outlet in the city.

Fire protection comes from Pittsville Fire Department Inc., 5388 4th Avenue.

City addresses use ZIP code 54466; a USPS source was not read.

The city lists five churches, a historical museum, the Pittsville Historical Society, the Pittsville Area Foundation for the Arts, and Lions, VFW and American Legion posts among its assets.

Riverside Park in the city offers tennis, basketball, kayaking, canoeing, disc golf, fishing and a walking trail.

The city points visitors to North Wood County Park (5 miles north), Sandhill Wildlife Area (12 miles south), Powers Bluff and Lake Dexter, and to ATV and snowmobile trails.

The city's annual events include Riverside Fall Fest on the first weekend of September, the Heart & Sole Race on July 3 from Riverside Park, a July 4th parade, the Lions Fisheree and Ice Races in Dexterville, and Christmas in the Center.

Splash of Red Cranberry Tours appear on the city's list of annual events.

James Quick Severns arrived in 1849, and Oliver Pitts came in 1856 and ran a sawmill near the Yellow River; the place became known as Pitts Mill and then Pittsville.

Fires in 1911, 1924 and 1928 destroyed large parts of the business district; after 1928, rebuilding moved to 2nd Avenue (now Highway 80).

The city dates its beginnings to about 1887 and says it was settled first by lumbermen and later by farmers.