Local Wiki
Columbia County
Official County Record
Official source, last checked Sep 5, 2026- County Board meets
- 3rd Wednesday of each month, 6:00 PM (exceptions: April's Organizational Meeting is the 3rd Tuesday, 9:00 AM; November's Annual/budget Meeting is the Tuesday after the 2nd Monday, 9:00 AM).
- Meeting location
- Not confirmable to a specific room — the county's official pages list only the Administration Building (112 E. Edgewater St., Portage, WI) and Courthouse (400 DeWitt St., Portage, WI) without stating which houses the Board's regular meeting room.
- County Clerk
- Sue Moll · 608-742-9654
- Agendas posted at
- https://www.co.columbia.wi.us/columbiacounty/countyboard/Board-of-Supervisors/County-Board-Agendas
- County Board Chair & Administrative Coordinator
- Administrative Coordinator form (Wis. Stat. Section 59.19), but combined with the elected County Clerk role rather than the Board Chair — a different combination pattern from Wood County's Chair/Coordinator merger. Per Resolution #48-86 (July 1986), the County Clerk statutorily also serves as Administrative Coordinator; the current Clerk is Lisa I. Black. Board Chair: Douglas Richmond (a stale, incorrect "Darren W. Schroeder" name circulating in older cached pages and search summaries has been corrected against the county's current official directory). 1st Vice Chair: Tess Carr. 2nd Vice Chair: Steven Balsiger.
Other Known Local Governments Here
These local governments — special-purpose districts, and smaller incorporated cities and towns — are known to exist in this area, but haven’t been individually researched yet, so there’s no meeting info or contacts on file. Listed here as a starting point if you want to look into one yourself; where we could confirm an official website, the name links there. More may exist here than are listed.
Cities (4)
- Columbus (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Lodi
- Portage (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Wisconsin Dells
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, 2024 · Website links from the official .gov registry and the Census Bureau’s 2022 Government Units listing, checked September 2026
Villages (10)
- Arlington (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Cambria (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Doylestown
- Fall River (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Friesland
- Pardeeville
- Poynette (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Randolph (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Rio (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Wyocena (official website, opens in a new tab)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, 2024 · Website links from the official .gov registry and the Census Bureau’s 2022 Government Units listing, checked September 2026
School districts (7)
- Cambria-Friesland School District
- Fall River School District
- Lodi School District
- Pardeeville Area School District
- Portage Community School District
- Poynette School District
- Rio Community School District
Source: NCES Common Core of Data (via Urban Institute), 2022 directory — regular school districts only