City of Schofield, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

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The municipality is the City of Schofield, an incorporated city in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5572150, ANSI 01584112).

The city is also a county subdivision of Marathon County (GEOID 5507372150, functional status F) with the same boundaries as the place.

The city covers 2.115 square miles of land and 0.874 square miles of water, with a Census internal point at 44.913348, -89.621478.

USGS GNIS records Schofield as a populated place in Marathon County (feature 1573796) at 44.9096907, -89.6045659.

Schofield sits in the center of the Wausau metropolitan area at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Wisconsin Rivers, bordered by the City of Wausau to the north, the Village of Weston to the east, the Village of Rothschild to the south, and the Wisconsin River (Lake Wausau) to the west.

The plan describes the city as landlocked and densely developed, with little vacant land left for new development, so redevelopment is expected to dominate future growth.

Several nearby records carry the Schofield name without belonging to this city: the Robert Schofield House on the National Register is in Greenwood (Clark County), and D.C. Everest Middle School and Mountain Bay Elementary sit on Schofield Avenue in the Village of Weston.

The 2020 Census counted 2,157 residents; the Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official estimate is 2,279, with an estimated voting-age population of 1,854.

The Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimate for Schofield is 2,291 residents on July 1, 2024 (2020 estimates base 2,158).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population is 2,020 (margin of error +/-311).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median age is 41.7 years (margin of error +/-10.4).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median household income is $65,478 (margin of error +/-$9,160, 2023 dollars).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median value of owner-occupied housing is $144,200 (margin of error +/-$22,141).

The 2022 plan reports some population decline in recent decades and expects the population to stay relatively stable.

In 2019, manufacturing employed the most Schofield residents (283, or 24.6 percent), followed by education, health and social services (200, or 17.4 percent).

Schofield has a mayor and a city council of eight alders; the mayor and alders serve four-year terms.

Kregg Hoehn is mayor of Schofield. He chaired the city's Plan Commission for the 2022 comprehensive plan and ran unopposed for another four-year term in the April 1, 2025 election.

On the April 1, 2025 ballot, four incumbent alders ran unopposed: Michael Steele (Ward 1), Jeffrey Pansch (Ward 2), Scott Dunst (Ward 3) and Kari Carroll (Ward 4). The other four council seats were not on that ballot.

The city clerk is Paula Brummond ([email address], 715-359-5230).

The city clerk's state-directory mailing address is 351 Alderson St, Schofield, WI 54476. The 2022 plan placed City Hall at 200 Park Street and noted discussion of relocating it and redeveloping that four-acre site.

The city's official website is schofieldwi.gov, the domain of the clerk's email address in the state directory. The site answered HTTP 403 to every automated request on 2026-09-19, so nothing on it is cited here.

The Rothschild Area Municipal Court at 211 Grand Avenue, Rothschild, serves the City of Schofield along with the Villages of Rothschild, Marathon City, Edgar and Weston and the Town of Weston.

Schofield has its own zoning and subdivision rules and its own water and sewer service, and shares police and fire service with neighbors. It adopted its first comprehensive plan in 2006, revised it in 2017, and updated it in 2022.

Schofield is in the D.C. Everest Area School District (NCES 5513170), headquartered at 6100 Alderson St in Weston, which NCES lists with 12 schools, grades PK-12, and 5,847 students in 2024-2025.

Everest Virtual Academy (NCES 551317003148), a D.C. Everest school, has a Schofield address at 1699 Schofield Ave.

D.C. Everest's junior and senior high schools are in the Village of Weston; the senior high campus off Alderson Street includes the Greenheck Field House.

Most employment in the city sits in two areas: the Grand Avenue/Business 51 commercial corridor and the industrial park north of Ross Avenue.

In 1946 the Wausau Chamber of Commerce bought a 47-acre tract at the former Brooks & Ross Lumber Company site, which became the region's first industrial park; Edward Drott moved a construction machinery maker there from Milwaukee in 1948.

Greenheck Fan Corporation lists its corporate mailing address as P.O. Box 410, Schofield, WI 54476.

Per 2019 Census OnTheMap data cited in the plan, over 4,300 people commute into Schofield for work, about 90 residents live and work in the city, and about 1,000 residents leave for jobs elsewhere.

Wisconsin Public Service provides electric and natural gas service; the plan names Charter, Frontier and TDS as the main wired telephone and internet providers.

The plan calls Grand Avenue/Business 51 the city's primary commercial corridor, notes it is maturing with few greenfield sites, and says the city remains committed to keeping it the primary commercial and retail area.

WRIG, 1390 kHz AM (FCC facility 73946, licensee WRIG, Inc.), is licensed to Schofield as its community of license.

Wausau Pilot & Review covers Schofield, including its city elections and a February 2026 item on a proposed Schofield trail link to Wausau.

The Mountain Bay Metropolitan Police Department polices Rothschild, Schofield and Weston from 211 Grand Avenue, Rothschild (715-359-3333).

The shared department began in fall 1993 when the Schofield and Weston police departments merged (then called the Everest Metropolitan Police Department).

The Riverside Fire District, a combination department with full-time and part-time staff, provides fire, EMS and rescue for the Village of Rothschild and the City of Schofield (715-359-3500). The 2022 plan dates the merged district to 2017.

Schofield is served by the Marathon County Public Library; its Schofield branch merged with the Rothschild branch in the combined library and village hall complex completed in March 1999 in Rothschild.

HRSA lists a Bridge Community Health Clinic site (FQHC) at D.C. Everest Senior High, 6500 Alderson St, with a Schofield mailing address.

There is no hospital in the city; the 2022 plan names the Aspirus hospital in Wausau and the hospital in Weston near State Highway 29 and County Highway X as the area's two major hospitals.

Schofield uses ZIP code 54476 in its official mailing address; a USPS retail unit in the city was not confirmed from a USPS source.

Lake Wausau, an 1,851-acre impoundment of the Wisconsin River, forms the city's western edge, and the Eau Claire River widens into the 75-acre Eau Claire Flowage behind the dam near the Grand Avenue/Business 51 bridge.

City parks named in the plan include Grace Park, Mayoral Park, Radtke Park (with stairs to Lake Wausau), Schofield Park, and the Schofield Dam area off Drott Street with fishing and boat launches onto both the Eau Claire Flowage and Lake Wausau.

Schofield shares the Rothschild/Schofield Aquatic Center at Pavilion Park, 1004 Park Street, Rothschild, whose 2026 season ran June 6 to August 16.

In February 2026 Schofield asked Wausau for feedback on a proposed trail running north from a former trailer park property in Schofield to East Kent Street, possibly through Wausau's Eau Claire River Conservancy, to separate pedestrians and cyclists from Grand Avenue traffic.

The city takes its name from Dr. William Scholfield, who bought the local sawmill in 1851 and helped lay out the area; the 'l' was later dropped from the name.

Schofield incorporated as a village in 1904 and became the fourth city in Marathon County in 1951.

The Scholfield family ran the sawmill until 1883, when it was sold to the Brooks & Ross Lumber Company of Chicago; the mill was the county's third-largest pine producer by 1900 and closed in 1942.

The Schofield School at 1310 S. Grand Ave. was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 2015; the former school building now holds affordable apartments.

The plan calls the Brooks and Ross Dam the city's major landmark; the old industrial riverfront is now public access to Lake Wausau and the Eau Claire Flowage.

Grand Avenue/Schofield Avenue (Business 51) is the city's principal north-south arterial, carrying more than 16,000 vehicles a day; Interstate 39/US 51 runs along the city's west side and State Highway 29 runs south of it.

The plan lists two airports serving the city: Central Wisconsin Airport near Mosinee for scheduled passenger service and the Wausau municipal airport in Wausau for general aviation.