Wisconsin’s smallest incorporated village is on a hill, and in a valley, too. Third in a series of profiles of persevering small towns in the Badger State — and the value of civil society.
By Mark Lisheron
On your way in on County Highway C, t-boning into Main Street right in front of the two-garage-door fire department, the sign says: Yuba, Population 91.
The state put up that sign a long, long time ago. As of the 2020 Census, Yuba has 53 people, making it, as Jim Huffman will tell you with considerable pride, the smallest incorporated village in the state of Wisconsin.
“In 2020 at the League of Municipalities meeting, someone came up to me and said, ‘You’re too small to exist,’” Huffman, the former village president for 38 years, says. “I said, OK, game on. And we’re still incorporated.”
