Village of Stratford, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

The names of the current village trustees were not confirmed from an official source.

The Village Board's regular meeting schedule was not confirmed from an official source.

Where the village posts agendas and legal notices was not confirmed from an official source.

Stratford is reported to be served by the Stratford Area Fire Department, a jointly owned department of surrounding towns and villages.

Whether a USPS retail post office operates in Stratford was not confirmed, though village addresses use ZIP 54484 and the clerk uses a PO box.

Stratford is reported to hold an annual Stratford Heritage Days festival, formerly called Lumberjack Days.

The municipality is the Village of Stratford, an incorporated village in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5577750).

The Village of Stratford covers 5.305 square miles of land and 0.036 square miles of water.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.797614 N, 90.070576 W.

USGS GNIS records Stratford as a named community in Marathon County at 44.8010763, -90.0792975.

Village addresses use Stratford, WI 54484; the village clerk's mailing address is PO Box 12, Stratford, WI 54484.

A 2025 trade-magazine profile places Stratford about 100 miles west of Green Bay, 90 miles east of Eau Claire, and 150 miles north of Madison, near the geographic center of Wisconsin.

This profile covers Stratford, Wisconsin in Marathon County, not the towns of Stratford in Connecticut or Ontario.

The 2020 Census count for the Village of Stratford was 1,581 residents.

The Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official population estimate for Stratford is 1,644.

The Census Bureau's July 1, 2024 estimate for Stratford village is 1,614 (2020 estimates base 1,580).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population for Stratford village is 1,439 (margin of error plus or minus 173).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median age in Stratford village is 48.6 years (margin of error plus or minus 4.7).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median household income in Stratford village is $65,880 (margin of error plus or minus $5,996).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median value of owner-occupied housing in Stratford village is $189,700 (margin of error plus or minus $16,057).

The 2025 profile says most residents descend from settlers from Germany, Poland, and Scandinavia.

In March 2026 the Stratford Village Board voted 3-2 to appoint trustee Todd Belter village president for the rest of Keith Grell's term, which runs to April 2027.

The Wisconsin Municipal Data System lists Samantha Hernandez as clerk for the Village of Stratford (DOA code 37182), phone 715-687-4166, email [email address]

The Village of Stratford's website is stratfordwi.gov, and its robots.txt disallows all automated agents that are not named, so Wausau Wire does not read or cite its pages.

The 2025 profile quoted Keith Grell as village president and described the village as a place where 'everybody knows everybody.'

The Stratford School District calls itself the 'Home of the Tigers' and lists its address as 213311 Legion St., Stratford, WI 54484.

NCES lists Stratford Elementary (551458000582), Stratford Middle (551458002939), and Stratford High (551458001891), all at 213311 Legion St, Stratford, under NCES district ID 5514580.

The 2025 profile quotes Nathan Lehman as school superintendent.

The village's anchor businesses include A&B Processing Systems, which designs, fabricates, automates, and installs stainless steel process systems; the then village president said it was recently purchased by JBT of Chicago.

Most Stratford businesses sit in a 115-acre industrial park on the west side of the village, which had six available lots when the village president spoke to a January 2025 trade-magazine profile.

Stratford has two tax increment districts offering financing for commercial, industrial, and residential projects.

Partners Bank of Wisconsin has served Stratford since 1908.

The profile reports local employment grew 8.48 percent from 2021 to 2022 and names housing as the village's main focus.

For county context, Marathon County had 3,436 business establishments and 65,770 paid employees in 2023.

The Record-Review, a Central Wisconsin News weekly, covers the Athens, Edgar, Marathon, and Stratford areas and school districts.

The Record-Review reported the March 2026 appointment of Stratford's new village president.

The Marathon County Public Library Stratford Branch is at 213201 Scholar Street, Stratford (715-687-4420).

The IMLS FY2022 outlet file lists the Stratford Branch as an outlet of the Marathon County Public Library system (FSCS key WI0341).

Marshfield Clinic Stratford Center, at 212800 Stainless Ave, offers family medicine, Med/Peds, and lab services; it opened in October 1973 as the health system's first regional center outside Marshfield.

Stratford's 'In the Park' summer series runs at Klemme Park; the 2025 season opened May 29 with a fiesta.

The 2025 profile describes numerous parks, wooded trails, and outdoor amenities in the village.

The Village of Stratford was incorporated in 1910, and W. F. Goetz was its first supervisor on the Marathon County board.

The R. Connor Company built a large saw and planing mill at the station on the Wausau-to-Marshfield rail extension and ran it every year from 1892, cutting 12 to 15 million feet of lumber a year by 1913.

Stratford was founded in the late 1800s by the Connor family, who came from Canada, built the first lumber mill, and served as the village's first leaders.

In 1913 the village had a weekly newspaper, the Stratford Reporter, published every Friday by F. J. Curtin & Son.