Town of Lincoln
Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Last verified September 17, 2026
Town of Lincoln is a jurisdiction in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, 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
Permit Search
No online permit database on file — contact the department directly by phone or email.
Certificate Holder Mailing Address
Fred Dahlke, Building Permits Contact (Eau Claire County Land Use Division)Town of Lincoln (Eau Claire County) -- Clerk: Sherri McCormick
Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Additional Notes
EAU CLAIRE COUNTY Town of Lincoln, independently verified via the town's own official site (lincolntownshipwi.com, which self-identifies as 'Town of Lincoln, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin,' Fall Creek). The WI DSPS UDC delegation list (Aug 2026) marks this town's status as 'Opt-Out' and lists a clerk contact of Kathy Dehnke, 715-877-2166, ksdehnke@msn.com -- but the town's own current site instead names the clerk as Sherri McCormick, 715-577-8607, LincolnTownClerkFCWI@gmail.com; this may reflect a clerk turnover since the DSPS snapshot, flagged as a hedge rather than resolved. Because of the opt-out status, building permits route to Eau Claire County: the town's own site names Fred Dahlke as the building-permits contact at 715-839-2944, while the county's general Land Use Division line is 715-839-4741 (Land Use Manager Ben Bublitz, landuse@eauclairecounty.gov, 721 Oxford Ave Suite 3344, Eau Claire WI 54703) and a separate search surfaced 715-839-4801 for a 'Fred Dahlke' -- these Dahlke numbers may be direct-line vs. switchboard variants; not fully resolved, hedge noted. One low-quality aggregated search result also returned a mailing address and phone (715-268-4747) for this town that exactly matched the Polk County Town of Lincoln's clerk phone found elsewhere in this batch -- that result was discarded as almost certainly cross-contaminated search-engine noise, not independently verified on any Eau Claire County or town domain, and should not be used.
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 — Town of Lincoln'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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