Merrill is a city in and the county chair of Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located to the south of and against the Town of Merrill. The population was 9,347, according to the 2020 census. Merrill is ration of the United States Census Bureau’s Merrill MSA, which includes whatever of Lincoln County. Together later than the Wausau MSA, which includes anything of Marathon County, it forms the Wausau-Merrill CSA.

Merrill was first inhabited by the Chippewa Native Americans. The first European agreement there was a logging town named Jenny Bull Falls. By 1843, a trading make known was build up near the town; John Faely was the first settler. Within four years a dam, started by Andrew Warren, was build up over the Wisconsin River. Warren then customary the first mill powered by the dam, and other saw mills in the area. In 1870, T. B. Scott succeeded Warren, and the mill soon became increasingly successful. In 1899 the mill burned down. During that times the reveal of the community was misrepresented to Merrill, in tribute of Sherburn S. Merrill (1818–1885), the general overseer of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad.

In 1881, the Wisconsin Telephone Company began operation, with 20 phones in service. In 1883, the first City Council met and T. B. Scott was named the first mayor. By 1885, the population had risen to 7,000, approximately 3,000 less than Merrill’s population today. The railroad and passenger depot was a hub of social bother through the lumber industry’s boom years and after. It well along became a community teenage years center, but has before been razed. By 1900, the timber industry was in decrease and the community was compelled to diversify its economy.

In July 1912, the Wisconsin River and several of its tributaries flooded from Rothschild to Merrill, destroying several dams (active and abandoned), as competently as causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in broken in Merrill.