Marshfield, Wisconsin For other places with the same name, see Marshfield, Wisconsin .
Marshfield, Wisconsin Location of Marshfield, Wisconsin Location of Marshfield, Wisconsin Marshfield is a town/city in Wood County and Marathon County in the U.S.
The biggest city in Wood County, its populace was 19,118 at the 2010 census. Of this, 18,218 were in Wood County, and 900 were in Marathon County.
The town/city is part of the United States Enumeration Bureau's Marshfield-Wisconsin Rapids Micropolitan Statistical Area, which contains all of Wood County (2010 population: 74,749).
Government marked all the section corners in the 6 by 6 miles (9.7 by 9.7 km) square which now contains Marshfield, Hewitt, and Cameron, working on foot with compass and chain. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description: Marshfield was settled much later than many encircling towns.
Du - Bay started his trading post 40 miles (64 km) east on the Wisconsin River around 1818. A sawmill was assembled at Nekoosa in 1832. A sawmill was assembled at Neillsville around 1847. The first building at Marshfield came in 1872. Unlike Marshfield, earlier communities were positioned on rivers, which at the time were highways through the forests of central Wisconsin.
In 1872 the Wisconsin Central Railway was building the leg of its line from Stevens Point through the forest to what would turn into Colby, heading north for Lake Superior.
The stockyards needed a supply depot between those two towns, and Marshfield was about midway.
The town/city ruled that buildings on Central should henceforth be assembled from brick, even though Marshfield had been largely assembled on richness generated by lumber.
In 1872 the Wisconsin Central assembled the first line through town.
In 1891 a line was assembled from Centralia (now Wisconsin Rapids), another was assembled to Greenwood, and a third from Wausau to Marshfield came from the north.
In 1901 a second line was assembled from Wisconsin Rapids to Marshfield.
In 1903 38 traveler trains stopped everyday in Marshfield. So many tracks intersected in the improve that Marshfield was nicknamed "Hub City".
Roddis and then Blum Brothers made wooden cheese boxes in Marshfield.
In 1923 a spokesman for the Soo Line Railroad said that Marshfield shipped more dairy products than any other town/city in the United States. In 1916, six small-town doctors formed a group practice clinic in the second story of the Thiel building downtown, calling themselves Marshfield Clinic. German immigrants made up two thirds of Marshfield's populace in the 1890s.
One of the two early newspapers, Die Demokrat, was presented in German. Many had family back in Germany as World War I approached, and had different sympathies. In one of Marshfield's old Victorian homes, a once-hidden paper-hanger's signature boasts, "...1917, when the Germans licked the World." Feelings were again different amid World War II. In the summer of 1945, 243 German POWs were brought in to fill a workforce shortage at the canning factory north of the current Wildwood Park. Marshfield is positioned at 44.6649, -90.1760, sitting on a low ridge called the Marshfield moraine by geologists. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.48 square miles (34.91 km2), of which 13.46 square miles (34.86 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. The Koppen climate classification subtype for the climate of Marshfield is "Dfb".
Climate data for Marshfield, Wisconsin As of the census of 2010, there were 19,118 citizens , 8,777 homeholds, and 4,995 families living in the city.
There were 8,777 homeholds of which 25.6% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 43.4% were married couples residing together, 9.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.1% were non-families.
20.9% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.8% were from 25 to 44; 27.4% were from 45 to 64; and 18.4% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 18,800 citizens , 8,235 homeholds, and 4,866 families living in the city.
There were 8,235 homeholds out of which 27.8% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 48.2% were married couples residing together, 8.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.9% were non-families.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 22.9% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 3.7% of families and 6.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 6.2% of those under age 18 and 10.0% of those age 65 or over.
The Marshfield School District comprises of Madison, Grant, Lincoln, Nasonville, and Washington elementary schools, Marshfield Middle School, and Marshfield High School.
In 2014 the Washington Post ranked Marshfield High School as the second most challenging school in Wisconsin; having a four-year graduation rate of 99%, average ACT score of 23.8, and Advanced Placement (AP courses) numbering 29. Marshfield parochial schools include Trinity Lutheran School (K-8), Immanuel Lutheran School (pre-K-8), and Columbus Catholic Schools.
John the Baptist Primary School, Our Lady of Peace Intermediate School, Columbus Catholic Middle School, and Columbus Catholic High School.
The University of Wisconsin Marshfield/Wood County and Mid-State Technical College Marshfield Campus are positioned in Marshfield.
Marshfield has a small-town improve arts facility, Chestnut Center for the Arts, and is the home of the New Visions Art Gallery, positioned in the Marshfield Clinic.
Marshfield Public Library, positioned downtown, offers adult and children's programs.
The Marshfield Clinic fitness provides community care for much of northern Wisconsin.
The Marshfield Clinic and St.
Joseph's Hospital also host medical and physician assistant pupils for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and furnish medical education, clinical experiences, and rotations.
Marshfield Clinic sponsors the Security Health Plan of Wisconsin. Joseph's Hospital, the only hospital in Marshfield, serves as a tertiary care center for much of northern Wisconsin.
Joseph's Hospital on the left and Marshfield Clinic on the right.
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