Welcome to Cecil, Wisconsin

Spring Yard Clean Up

Village of Cecil
Spring Yard Clean Up
May 4, 2022

Snow Removal

Property owners are reminded to clear entire sidewalk of snow and ice within 24 hours after any given snowfall. Failure to keep ice and snow clear of sidewalks may subject the property owners to fines and charges for removal.

In addition, property owners are reminded not to plow or blow snow from parking lots or driveways onto streets or alleys. The Village will remove snow deposited and bill the property owner for the cost of such removal. Village Ordinance #69 State Stats. 66.615(5).

Winter Parking

No person shall park a vehicle on Village streets between 3:00AM and 8:00AM from November 1st to April 1st to facilitate snow removal. Village Ordinance 176 Sec. 1.03(3).

Curbside Recyling Guide

As of January 1, 2019, all recyclables will be picked up UNBAGGED (loose) in a container of your choice. This is a new requirement of a Shawano County Recycling Ordinance. Garbage will continue to be bagged.

Please see our Curbside Recycling Guide.

Village History

First known as the “Head of the Lake”, Cecil was founded by the logging industry around 1849. Wisconsin Pine cut in and around Cecil was floated across Shawano Lake down the Wolf River to Oshkosh. The second major industry here was the ice harvest in Cecil Bay. Some of this ice shipped as far away as Milwaukee. When the railroad was finished in 1884, the new settlement at the “Head of the Lake” was named Cecil, after a railroad man by the name of Cecil Leavitt.

Today, Cecil is a vacationers retreat on Shawano Lake, providing visitors with places to stay, eat and drink, golf, fish and boat, dance, play ball, camp, hunt and wintertime fun on the many snowmobile trails in the area, as well as ice racing and of course, ice fishing.

Come visit our small community, summer or winter, there is a place on the lake for you. After more than 100 years, Cecil remains the only Village on Shawano Lake.