Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1902 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cassel’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cassel. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Cassel.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cassel yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Cassel is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 934 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 911 to 934 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Cassel, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The town of Cassel was created November 12, 1891, and in the ensuing election John Werner was elected the first chairman and representative of the town in the county board. This town was settled by the Pittsburg settlers' club as much as the town of Marathon. The village of Marathon City was laid out on the east boundary line of this town, and when the settlers came, they located south and west of the proposed village. Eully as many of the first settlers located in the present town of Cassel, if not more, than in the town of Marathon. One look at the plat of this town shows the names
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
on the home farm even that early during the summers. When twentyfour years old, about the time of his marriage, he rented a farm of eighty acres in the town of Marathon, then worked for one summer for John Seubert in tTie town of Cassel, and during the following years worked in the same town on land he had purchased which he subsequently sold. On February 5, 1902, he bought his present farm and at first resided in the house situated north of the one into which he moved after remodeling it, but three years ago sold all his personal effects to
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Cassel itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
