Schmillen Construction Inc

About Schmillen Construction Inc

Marcus is small enough that the grain elevator and the rail spur beside it mark the real center of town, and Schmillen Construction Inc works the wide gravel lots around both once the snow starts stacking up. This is Cherokee County in January: flat country, hard wind, and drifts that build against anything taller than a fence post. The crew brings equipment built for farm-sized jobs — full driveways, machine sheds, the open aprons behind Main Street's few storefronts — and pushes snow back in long, even rows rather than scattered piles. There's a specific pleasure in watching a lot that was solid white at 6 a.m. turn back into gravel and blacktop by the time the first truck needs to load out. Small-town winter work like this doesn't ask for much notice, just a clear path when the day actually starts.