Wells Township

Marquette County, Michigan

Last verified September 17, 2026

Wells Township is a jurisdiction in Marquette County, Michigan, which does not currently list an online permit database — contact the department directly by phone or email. Use the contact information below to reach the local building department, or the mailing address if the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.

Contact

Phone
906-629-1128

Permit Search

No online permit database on file — contact the department directly by phone or email.

Certificate Holder Mailing Address

Wells Township

Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.

Additional Notes

This is a distinct, unrelated Wells Township from the Delta County and Tuscola County ones in this batch. Official township site is wellstownshipmarquettecounty.com; a direct fetch could not be completed (DNS resolution failure via https, and the http version returned only a general contact list with no dedicated permit page or mailing address), so contact info here (phone 906-629-1128, listed for Supervisor/Clerk/Treasurer/Zoning alike) is taken from that page's content as summarized by search tooling - treat as a lead pending direct verification. A separate, third-party-sourced lead (unconfirmed, from a general web search, not independently verified against the official site) named an Assessor 'John Gehres' at (231) 373-8342 and a Zoning Administrator 'Steve Mileski' at (906) 238-4349 - these are hedged/unconfirmed and not used as the structured phone field since they could not be confirmed directly on an official page during this research.

What You Need Before Applying for a Permit

Most building departments ask for the same core package before they'll issue a permit: a completed application naming the property owner and contractor, the contractor's state license number and proof of insurance (general liability, and workers' comp if employees are on the job), a notice of commencement or equivalent recorded filing for larger jobs where the state requires one, and scaled plans or a site plan for anything beyond minor repairs. Roofing, fence, pool, and solar permits typically have their own simplified checklists — Wells Township's department (above) can confirm exactly what applies to your project.

Why this matters for insurance: permit history is one of the first things an underwriter or adjuster checks. Unpermitted work — a finished basement, an added bedroom, a rebuilt roof — can complicate a claim or even void coverage for that portion of the loss, and it routinely surfaces during a home inspection. Pulling the right permit up front, and keeping the closed-permit record on file, protects both the property's value and its insurability at resale.

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