Town of Gordon
Ashland County, Wisconsin
Last verified September 17, 2026
Town of Gordon is a jurisdiction in Ashland 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.
Contact
- Phone
- 715-264-2460
- gordontwnclerk@gmail.com
- Department Site
- Town Clerk (Vickie Stencil) (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
Gordon Town Hall
24357 Gordon Lake Road, P.O. Box 85
Glidden, WI 54527
Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Additional Notes
This is the Town of Gordon in ASHLAND County, unrelated to the separate Town of Gordon in Douglas County (see next entry) - researched independently and not to be conflated. No named building inspector was found; permit inquiries likely route through the Clerk / Ashland County Zoning office. Wisconsin DSPS's UDC-delegated list shows Gordon (Ashland Co., municipality code 02010) as "Delegated," but administrator/inspector contact fields were blank in the cleaner parsed copy of that PDF (a rougher extraction pass showed what appears to be misaligned data belonging to a different row and was discarded as unreliable, per the known column-shift issue in naive parses of this document). Town Hall: 24357 Gordon Lake Road, P.O. Box 85, Glidden, WI 54527.
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 Gordon'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.
More in Ashland County
See Ashland County property and court records →
Other building permit jurisdictions in Ashland County: