Founding year: the first Stettin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Stettin’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Stettin is more historic than 51% of U.S. towns, #205 of 362 in Wisconsin. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Stettin’s overall grade.
Wisconsin towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Wisconsin town has 3.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Stettin’s 3.9 sits near the middle of its state (64% of Wisconsin towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.0 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Stettin’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Stettin. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1902Marathon sheet · 1:125,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Stettin.
The story so far
Stettin, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Stettin yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Stettin is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,554 at the 2010 census, and was 2580 in the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Mount View is partially located in the town.
Its first post office opened in 1864. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,554 in 2010, 2,580 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Stettin in 1913
Passages that mention Stettin, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Marathon County, Wisconsin1913 · page 875Read the page →
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Herman A. Wendorfif attended the public schools in the town of Stettin and also the Wausau city schools for a few terms and thus prepared himself for teaching school. He taught six terms in the town of Stettin, two terms in Rib Falls and two terms in the town of Berlin and fulfilled every expectation as a teacher. During this period he was looking to the future and purchased first a tract of forty acres, for which he paid $1,000, and subsequently an eighty-acre tract, paying $2,000 for this land, all in one body. As soon as he owned his land he
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History of Marathon County, Wisconsin1913 · page 113Read the page →
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The present town of Rib Falls, being township 29, range 5, was settled contemporaneously with Stettin, the brothers Wilde, August Heise, August Schroeder, coming there in 1856, followed by Carl Hanke and four or five other families in 1857. In speaking of the early settlers of the town of Stettin, John Wilberle and Vogedes must also be mentioned.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Stettin, 1849 to 1906
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Stettin post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Stettin rank for history?
Stettin is more historic than 51% of U.S. towns, #205 of 362 in Wisconsin. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Stettin?
One place: the Benjamin Single House (listed 1980).
How old are the homes in Stettin?
14% of Stettin’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.0 points), against a typical 12% for a Wisconsin town; the median home was built in 1984.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), 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.
