Town of Wheatland
Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Last verified September 18, 2026
Town of Wheatland is a jurisdiction in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, with an online portal for searching and pulling active or historical building permits. 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
- 262-537-4340
- clerk@tn.wheatland.wi.gov
- Department Site
- Town of Wheatland Building Inspector (opens in a new tab)
Certificate Holder Mailing Address
Tim Popanda (Building Inspector, per town website - see notes on DSPS ambiguity)Town of Wheatland
34315 Geneva Road, PO Box 797
New Munster, WI 53152
Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Additional Notes
HEDGE / two Wheatlands warning (Kenosha vs Vernon County - do not conflate; researched independently here). Two websites appear for this town (older townwheatland.com and newer wheatlandkenoshaco.gov). townwheatland.com's own Building Inspector page names Tim Popanda as the inspector (inspector@tn.wheatland.wi.gov, 262-537-4340, office hours Mon-Fri 4-5pm). Wisconsin DSPS's UDC delegated-municipality list instead pairs clerk Katie Sweatman (same tn.wheatland.wi.gov domain) with an inspector named 'Brad Smrcina' at a 608-area-code phone/email - that name, phone, and email exactly match the inspector independently confirmed for the DIFFERENT Town of Wheatland in Vernon County, so this DSPS row is very likely a table/row-misalignment artifact of that PDF (a known risk flagged for this document) rather than evidence Smrcina also serves Kenosha County's Wheatland. Zoning/land-use permits for the unincorporated town are separately administered by Kenosha County Planning & Development via eTRAKiT; UDC (dwelling) permits go through the town's own inspector (name given here with above caveat).
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 Wheatland'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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