Town of Texas, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No library outlet or post office inside the Town of Texas was identified in fetched sources; the municipal center uses a Wausau 54403 mailing address.

The municipality is the Town of Texas, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507379350).

Texas is a civil town governed by a chairman and two supervisors, with a clerk and treasurer listed among the town officers.

The Town of Texas covers 44.416 square miles of land and 0.321 square miles of water.

The town's Census internal point is near 45.072421 N, 89.557041 W.

The town is bordered on the west by the Wisconsin River, on the north by Lincoln County, and on the east by the Town of Hewitt.

The town's plan describes about 28,608 acres of land and a total surface area of about 45 square miles, with elevations from 1,190 feet along the Wisconsin River in the southwest to about 1,490 feet in the southeast.

The Town of Texas Municipal Center is at 158644 River Hills Road, Wausau, Wisconsin 54403 (715-675-7476).

The 2020 Census count for the Town of Texas was 1,611 residents.

The Wisconsin DOA January 1, 2025 official population estimate for the Town of Texas is 1,626.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of total population for Texas town is 2,035 (margin of error plus or minus 206).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median age in Texas town is 44.4 years (margin of error plus or minus 0.3).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median household income in Texas town is $81,010 (margin of error plus or minus $9,253).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year median value of owner-occupied housing in Texas town is $223,800 (margin of error plus or minus $17,445).

The 2019 plan reports that the town's population fell 5.5 percent after 2000, while Marathon County and Wisconsin each grew more than 7 percent from 2000 to 2015.

The Town Chairman is Delmar Winter.

The town supervisors are Richard Burch and Tom Domka.

The Town Clerk is Leona Brandenburg (715-750-2750).

The Wisconsin Municipal Data System lists Connie Beyersdorff as clerk for the Town of Texas (DOA code 37078), which conflicts with the town's own roster.

The Town Treasurer is listed as Linda Theissen; the home page spells the same rental contact Linda Thiessen.

The town's page lists Matthew Bootz as its Marathon County Board representative.

Other listed officers are Planning Commission Chair Paul Anderson, Zoning Inspector Duane Dittmar, Fire Chief Rick Walters, and Town Assessor Kurt Moeller; the constable post is to be appointed.

The town's posted 2026 Town Board agendas fall on second Mondays (January 12, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, and September 14), with an Annual Meeting on April 21, 2026.

The Zoning & Planning Commission's posted 2026 agendas fall on first Mondays (January 5, February 2, April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, August 3).

The town posts Town Board and Zoning & Planning agendas and minutes on its website and offers an email sign-up to receive agendas and minutes.

The Town of Texas official website is texaswi.gov; the older townoftexas.com address redirects to it.

Zoning permits are required for construction; the zoning inspector reviews applications and setbacks, and Northwinds Inspections (Darrin Pagel) does building inspections. The zoning ordinance posted is dated 10-21-2025, with a 2023 zoning map.

The clerk announced that absentee ballots for the November 2026 election would be mailed September 17, 2026, with in-person absentee voting by appointment from October 20.

The 2019 plan states the Town of Texas is served by the Wausau School District and that Hewitt-Texas Elementary is located within the town.

NCES lists Hewitt-Texas Elementary (NCES ID 551590002051) at T10331 Quarry Rd, Wausau, WI 54403, under NCES district ID 5515900.

The 2019 plan describes a primarily manufacturing and construction based economy with many family farms, and names Wausau Hardware & Machine Company and Stainless Steel Specialists as major employers within the town.

Agriculture covers 9,484 acres, about 33 percent of the town, and the plan names Hsu Ginseng Farms and Baumann Ginseng Farms as the town's major ginseng growers.

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

Wausau Pilot & Review's weekly property-transfer roundup covers the town; the week of August 3-8, 2026 listed a Granite Road home in the town of Texas that sold for $575,000.

The town has a volunteer fire department led by Fire Chief Rick Walters.

The 2019 plan counted 12 firefighters and 3 first responders, mutual aid with Hewitt, Easton, Wausau, Maine, Pine River, and Merrill, and ambulance service from the City of Wausau.

The town uses the Marathon County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement, with a town constable for nuisance and animal complaints.

The town contains Trappe River Dells Park, Jesse Park, and portions of the Wisconsin River Forest Unit.

The Wisconsin River and the Trappe River are the town's main waterways; USGS GNIS records the Trappe River and Little Trappe River in Marathon County.

The Wisconsin Valley Sno Jets Snowmobile Club meets at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of September through April at its club house, 244053 County Road W.

The town lists two Home and Community Education clubs, North Texas and the 50/50 Club.

The Town of Texas was established in 1856, and a sawmill was built on the Trappe River in that decade.

German immigrants settled in Texas by the 1860s and soon predominated; early farms lay along the Merrill Road.

Texas had a granite industry by the 1880s; the first quarry at Granite Heights, about seven miles north of Wausau, cut paving blocks for Chicago, and the Lake Wausau Granite Company opened a quarry around 1914.

The former Village of Brokaw developed at the southwest edge of the town around the Wausau Paper Mill, which shut down in 2012.

The plan reports no National Register of Historic Places listings in the town and six properties in the Wisconsin Architecture & History Inventory.

County Highways W and WW are the town's major roads, and CTH WW carries the town's only bridge across the Wisconsin River.