Town of Wien, Marathon County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No list of major employers located in the Town of Wien was found in a primary source.

The newspaper where the town publishes notices was not identified; the 2025 annual report records $345.35 for 'Announcements in newspaper' without naming the paper.

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

The municipality is the Town of Wien, a civil town in Marathon County, Wisconsin (Census county subdivision GEOID 5507387025).

Wien is a town governed by a chairman and two supervisors, not a city or village.

No other Wisconsin county subdivision named Wien appears in the Census 2024 gazetteer.

The Town of Wien covers 31.584 square miles of land and 0.007 square miles of water.

Wien's Census internal point is near 44.907469, -90.00979.

The town lies in west-central Marathon County, bounded by the Towns of Rietbrock (north), Frankfort (west), Cassel (east) and Cleveland (south); the Village of Fenwood borders it on the south and the Village of Edgar on the northeast.

The plan lists STH 29, STH 97 and County Highways M, N, H and P as the town's major roadways.

USGS GNIS records a populated place named Wien in Marathon County at 44.9019, -90.0246.

The Wien Town Hall is at 224130 County Hwy M, Edgar, WI 54426, at the corner of County M and N; the clerk's mailing address is 121041 County Road N, Edgar.

Agricultural land covers 12,351 acres (61 percent) of the town, about 70 percent of the town has prime farmland soils, and about 1,800 acres are under farmland preservation agreements.

The 2020 Census counted 885 residents in the Town of Wien.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates Wien's population at 886 as of January 1, 2025.

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of Wien's population is 912 (+/-141).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in Wien is 38.2 years (+/-6.3).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in Wien is $88,750 (+/-$35,583).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in Wien is $221,200 (+/-$31,744).

The comprehensive plan counts 299 housing units in the town, 293 of them occupied.

Calvin (Cal) Tackes is Town Chairman.

Kelly King and David Bauman are Town Supervisors.

Diane Drinsinger is Town Clerk (715-212-9269).

Margie Wenzel is Town Treasurer.

James Kurtzweil is the contracted assessor, and Kevin Breit is the building inspector.

The monthly town board meeting is the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Wien Town Hall, corner of M and N; changes are posted.

Agendas, minutes and packets post on the town website's Agendas & Minutes page, and residents can subscribe to email notices for news, agendas, minutes and packets.

The town's official website is townofwien.com; the 2025 annual report credits Treasurer Margie Wenzel with getting it running.

The 2026 annual town meeting was set for Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.

The town reported 2025 receipts of $1,100,932.88, expenses of $1,115,823.87 and a December 31, 2025 balance of $159,986.33.

The Town Board adopted an updated comprehensive plan on December 9, 2024.

Three school districts cover the town: Edgar (about 85 percent of its area), Stratford (about 14 percent, the southwest corner) and Athens (about 1 percent, near STH 29 and STH 97).

Edgar School District (NCES 5504080) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 575 students in 2024-25, based at 203 E Birch St, Edgar.

Stratford School District (NCES 5514580) is a PK-12 district of 3 schools with 774 students in 2024-25.

Athens School District (NCES 5500570) is a PK-12 district of 4 schools with 417 students in 2024-25, based at 601 West Limits Road, Athens.

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

The plan reports 478 employed residents in 2022, a labor force of 479 and a 0.2 percent unemployment rate.

Development in the town is dominated by agriculture, with pockets of residences and scattered commercial establishments.

The town's 2025 liquor license receipts came from River Country, Edgar Family Restaurant, the Steam Club and an Edgar FFA Alum/School Sports Clubs picnic license.

Fire protection and EMS come from the Edgar and Stratford fire departments, with the responding department set by location in the township; the town bills property owners up to the first $1,000 of any fire run.

The Marathon County Sheriff's Office provides police protection and E-911 dispatch.

The Marathon County Public Library's Edgar Branch (224 S. Third Ave.), about 2,046 square feet with about 14,800 volumes, is the nearest branch.

The Towns of Wien and Frankfort jointly manage a nondenominational town cemetery; the land was bought on December 8, 1880, and the two towns agreed to establish it jointly on December 30, 1889.

The town hall is a multi-use facility used for reunions, receptions and town meetings, and rents for $105 to residents and $130 to non-residents, including a $50 refundable deposit.

The town does not provide garbage service but runs a recycling drop-off at the old town garage at Highways N and M on the second and fourth Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon.

Town addresses, including the Town Hall, use Edgar, WI 54426.

Fenwood Creek and Scotch Creek are the town's two primary water features, and the plan lists both as impaired for high phosphorus.

The largest wetland area is where the Fenwood Creek floodplain widens around County Highway M.

The Edgar Steam Show is held each year at the Kurt Umnus Farm in the Town of Wien; the first show ran in August 1974 at State Park Speedway in Wausau, and it moved to the farm in 1975.

The town's Clean Sweep for large appliances, metal and tires was set for October 10, 2026, 8 a.m. to noon, at Beeline on Hwy 97.

The town's Links page lists the Wien Wildcats 4-H and two churches in the township, St. John Lutheran Church and St. John Lutheran ELCA Church.

Frontier, Country Wireless, Horizon and AirRunner Networks provide high-speed internet in the town, cable service is available only near the Village of Edgar, and one communication tower stands in the town.

The Town of Wien was named for the birthplace of an early settler, Math Halkowitz.

The land that became Wien was originally held by Frederick Rietbrock's lumber and land company.

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad built through the town and platted the Village of Fenwood in southern Wien in 1891; a sawmill there operated only until 1910, as dairy farming and cheese factories began to dominate the local economy.

The plan places Wien in the heart of Marathon County's German settlement.

Two town properties are on the Wisconsin Architectural History Inventory, the John C Borchart Farmstead and the Frank Socha House, and the State Historic Preservation Office has identified four historic cemeteries in Wien.