Town of Stettin, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No list of major employers located in the Town of Stettin was found in a primary source; the town describes only agricultural land and some smaller businesses.

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

No town park, trail, or lake inside Stettin was confirmed from a source read this session.

The first German farm settlers came to Stettin in 1856, the Buttke brothers and their cousins among the first.

The municipality is the Town of Stettin, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507377150).

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

Stettin is distinct from the adjacent Village of Marathon (Marathon City); the town describes itself as adjacent to the Village of Marathon.

The Town of Stettin covers 35.842 square miles of land and 0.186 square miles of water.

The town's Census internal point is near 44.982254, -89.777891.

The town describes itself as a large suburban township along State Highway 29, less than 10 minutes from downtown Wausau.

Town staff maintain 72 miles of public roads.

The town is composed of private residences and developments, agricultural land, and some smaller businesses.

Stettin votes in five wards, all at the Stettin Town Hall.

The 2020 Census counted 2,580 residents in the Town of Stettin.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Stettin's population at 2,608 as of January 1, 2025.

The town's own site rounds its population to 2,500.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Stettin's population is 2,578 (+/-24).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Stettin is 40.7 years (+/-2.4).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Stettin is $102,197 (+/-$10,335).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Stettin is $355,200 (+/-$40,777).

Tim Buttke is Town Chairman.

Dave Thunder and Dale Skrzypchak are Town Supervisors.

Marlo Turner is Town Clerk (715-571-1480).

Faye Zernicke is Town Treasurer.

Steve Burger is the appointed Zoning Administrator, and zoning permits are required in Stettin.

Property assessment is contracted to Hoffman Appraisals (assessor Terry Vosburgh).

The Plan Commission is chaired by Bob Voigt.

The Town Board meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at 7:00 p.m., except on holidays.

Agendas are published on the town website, at the Town Hall, and in the Wausau Daily Herald, 1 to 3 days before meetings.

The town's Agendas & Minutes page loads its meeting list from the HeyGov platform, and residents can subscribe to email and text notices on the town website.

The Stettin Town Hall is at 141678 Stettin Drive, Wausau, WI 54401; office hours are by appointment, and the town mailing address is PO Box 413, Marathon, WI 54448.

The town's official website is townofstettin.org.

The 2026 annual meeting of town electors was set for Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall.

Stettin's 2026 Board of Review was set for May 14, 2026, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Since January 1, 2026, the town has contracted weekly garbage and biweekly recycling pickup with Harter's Disposal, billed on property taxes, with the whole township picked up on Fridays.

The town garage at 141436 Stettin Drive hosts the spring clean-up drop-off, held April 23 to 25, 2026.

The town publishes a spring newsletter, the ECHO; the Spring 2026 issue is Volume 31, Issue 1.

Two unified school districts cover the town: Wausau School District (about 61 percent of the town's area) and Marathon City School District (about 39 percent).

Wausau School District (NCES 5515900) is a PK-12 district of 18 schools with 7,738 students in 2024-25, based at 415 Seymour St, Wausau.

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.

Stettin Elementary (NCES 551590002061) is a Wausau School District K-5 school at 109 N 56th Ave, Wausau, with 327 students; NCES codes its locale as City, Small, so it carries the Stettin name without being confirmed inside the town.

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

The Wausau Daily Herald is the newspaper where the town publishes meeting agendas.

The Marathon City Fire Department is the primary fire and rescue provider for the Town of Stettin, along with the Village of Marathon City and the towns of Cassel and Rib Falls; it added emergency medical response in 1992.

No public library outlet is listed in the Town of Stettin; the Marathon County Public Library has a Marathon Branch in Marathon and its main library in Wausau.

Town addresses, including the Town Hall, use Wausau, WI 54401.

The town describes itself as convenient to Rib Mountain State Park; Rib Mountain is a named summit in Marathon County at 44.9208, -89.6946.

The town runs a yard waste site for residents from April 1 to November 30.

Recurring civic dates include the spring annual meeting of electors, the spring clean-up drop-off, and the Board of Review; no community festival was confirmed.

The Marathon County board created the town of Stettin in February 1860, and its first election that spring chose Charles Buttke as chairman.

By 1913 the town had four cheese factories, seven school districts, and two Evangelical Lutheran churches, the first congregation organized by Rev. A. F. H. Gebhard with a church built in 1885.

USGS GNIS records a historical populated place named Stettin in Marathon County at 44.9730, -89.8076.

The unincorporated community of Mount View lies partly in the town.