Town of Lincoln

Wood County, Wisconsin

Last verified September 17, 2026

Town of Lincoln is a jurisdiction in Wood 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

Phone
715-897-4416
Email
clerk-kad@tn.lincoln-wood.wi.gov
Department Site
Town Clerk's Office / Planning & Zoning (building inspector not confirmed) (opens in a new tab)

Source: tn.lincoln-wood.wi.gov (opens in a new tab)

Permit Search

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

Certificate Holder Mailing Address

Kathleen Altmann-Drinka, Town Clerk
Town of Lincoln (Wood County)
10905 Falcon Road
Marshfield, WI 54449

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

Additional Notes

WOOD COUNTY Town of Lincoln, independently verified via the town's own official site (tn.lincoln-wood.wi.gov, a WI .gov domain, self-identifying as Wood County). Clerk is Kathleen Altmann-Drinka (the 'kad' in the email alias), appointed to a two-year term beginning April 1, 2026 per Wood County Clerk records -- name and term independently corroborated outside the town site. Planning & Zoning contact line: 715-650-0655; general town office: 715-384-6981, 10905 Falcon Road, Marshfield, WI 54449. No town-specific named UDC building inspector could be confirmed on the town's own site (FAQ only advises contacting the zoning administrator before building); the WI DSPS UDC delegation list (Aug 2026) also has no separate municipal/inspector contact on file for this entry -- left null rather than guessed. IMPORTANT CROSS-CHECK: a low-confidence aggregated web search suggested REM Inspecting LLC (confirmed elsewhere in this batch as the Polk County Town of Lincoln's inspector, based in Clear Lake, WI, far from Wood County) also serves this town -- this could NOT be verified on the town's own site or any Wood County source and is judged to be search-engine cross-contamination from the shared 'Town of Lincoln' name; it is explicitly NOT used here.

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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