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History · West Marshland

12% of West Marshland’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1962 on.

0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about West Marshland’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of West Marshland are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s West Marshland.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how West Marshland’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Ekdall
1891–1917
Peet
1902–1917
18901960today
1cemetery inside West Marshland
Peet

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

West Marshland, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of West Marshland yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

West Marshland is a town in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 400 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 367 to 400 (+9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

West Marshland, 1891 to 1962

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Ekdall post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Peet post office opens
  5. 1917Post officeThe Ekdall post office closes
  6. 1917Post officeThe Peet post office closes
  7. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

West Marshland, decade by decade

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On the map

West Marshland on the map, 1962 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of West Marshland. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

West Marshland on the 1962 USGS mapWest Marshland on the 1985 USGS map1962Grantsburg sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of West Marshland.

Famous people

Famous people close to West Marshland

Nobody well known was born in West Marshland itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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John Monk SaundersScreenwriter, novelist, film director · b. 1897
Molly EngstromAmerican women's ice hockey player · b. 1983
Leo ChenalAmerican football player · b. 2000
Carol MerrillAmerican game show model · b. 1941
Gus JohnsonAmerican YouTube comedian and podcast host · b. 1995
Jon RydbergAmerican wheelchair tennis and basketball player · b. 1977
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

UnionIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrantsburgIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWood River1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincolnIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikimedia Commons (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.