Outagamie County Corrections/Jail 
320 S. Walnut St.
Appleton, WI 54911

The Wisconsin Voter Public Access provides an address search to search your polling place location. For information, click HERE

For a list of polling locations in Outagamie County, click HERE

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Register of Deeds 
832-5095
832-2177 - fax
410 S Walnut St
Administration Bldg - 2nd level

County Clerk
832-5077
832-2200 - fax
410 S Walnut St
Administration Bldg - 2nd level

Legislative Services 
832-5054
832-1895 - fax
410 S Walnut St
Administration Bldg - 2nd level

Any disputes or questions regarding the details of your assessment can be answered by your local Assessor.  Please contact your local Assessor to discuss your options.  The Wisconsin Municipal Assessors List can be found here: https://www.revenue.wi.gov/DOR%20Publications/assrlist.pdf

Instructions on how to file an address change request can be found on the Outagamie County Treasurer’s website, HERE.  Note: Address change requests may take up to 24 hours to process and update on the county website.

If you are looking for the general location of your lot lines, a good place to start is looking at an aerial photo of your property on the County GIS website HERE. There are multiple ways to search for your property (owner name, address, parcel number), choose the method that works best for you. 

If you need to know exactly where your property lines are, the best way to find out is by contacting a local surveyor to further assist you with locating and marking the exact location of your property lines.  A list of area surveyors can be found HERE.  Outagamie County doesn’t provide a service to locate your property lines.

Outagamie County issues some addresses for properties within the county.
Please visit this website for more information.

There are two steps that need to occur in order to accomplish this.  The first step in the process is to consult with a Professional Land Surveyor in regards to providing a legal description for the parcel that will be sold.  Per the Outagamie County Subdivisions and Platting Ordinance, a Professional Land Surveyor will have to prepare a Certified Survey Map of the property.  If the parcel of land is to be sold to an adjoining property, the Certified Survey Map will show your parcel of land with the proposed acquisition and your neighbor’s parcel of land less the proposed acquisition. A list of local Professional Land Surveyors can be found HERE.   The second step is to either have your surveyor or an attorney draft a deed with the legal description of the proposed acquisition.  The deed will need to be signed by the required parties and then recorded with the Outagamie County Register of Deeds Office.  Simply stated, the Certified Survey Map creates the map and legal description of the property to be transferred and the recorded deed actually transfers title to the property.

There are a couple of additional things to keep in mind

• The Outagamie County Subdivisions and Platting Ordinance does not apply to properties which are located within an incorporated village or city.
• The Outagamie County Subdivisions and Platting Ordinance has additional property split regulations that may apply.Not all properties can be split using a standard Certified Survey Map.
• Additional county ordinances may prohibit properties from being split.

Outagamie County Development and Land Services regulates land division and provides review for proposed subdivision plats and certified survey maps. The Outagamie County Subdivisions and Platting ordinance governs the division of land into smaller parcels. This ordinance includes requirements for layout, public streets, improvements, dedications and lot design. A certified survey map (CSM) is required if the division of land will create fewer than five lots. A subdivision plat is needed to create five or more lots.

 A list of area surveyors can be found HERE to further assist you with a CSM or plat.

Outagamie County Permit applications must be filed online using the CityView Web Portal.  Please click HERE for a quick guide on how to apply through CityView. Don’t hesitate to contact Development & Land Services Staff if you have additional questions.

When submitting a permit application using CityView Web Portal, the system will automatically assign regular application fees.  After filing the application, but before paying the standard application fees, you will need to contact a Development & Land Services staff member to adjust the permit application fees correctly.  Once the fees are adjusted, you will be able to log back into your Cityview account and pay the after-the-fact fees under ‘My Items’.

Every project is a little different and the location of the specific project plays a significant role in determining what permits are required.  Please review this permitting guide and then consult with Development & Land Services Staff for additional information.

Building Permits are issued by the building inspectors of the local towns, typically after Outagamie County Zoning Permits have been issued.  Please use this permitting guide to review any permits you may need prior to obtaining a building permit.  

Zoning regulations and property zoning designations indicate what uses are allowed for specific properties.  The process for rezoning a property is shown HERE. It is best to consult with the Department of Development and Land Services staff to discuss existing, future and intended land uses for a specific property that is regulated by the Outagamie County Zoning Ordinance.

For properties that are located within one of the Townships of Outagamie County, parcels need to be combined as outlined in the Outagamie County Subdivisions and Platting Ordinance.  A Certified Survey Map is required and the process is similar to splitting an individual property into two or more parcels.

Properties that are located within a “City” or “Village” may combine/split a parcel or parcels with approval from your Municipal Clerk and your local Assessor.  A letter signed by Municipal Clerk and ALL owners of the parcel or parcels can be emailed to the Real Property Lister:  terri.lison@outagamie.org  Combine/Splits will be processed for the following Tax Roll year.  For example a request received on June 10^th 2020 would be reflected on the 2021 Tax bill.  Please contact your Municipal Clerk as well as your Local Assessor for information regarding how this may or may not affect your property assessments.

Please click HERE for additional information regarding Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems. 

Additional information can be found on the following websites:

• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Wastewater/NonDomestic.html
• State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services: https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/Programs/POWTS/Default.aspx

Please visit the Outagamie County Ascent Land Records website HERE.  Search your property by parcel Id, Street Number/Name or by Name.  Once the record is found click on “Select Detail” and then Assessments.  If you have further questions regarding the details of your assessment, please contact your local assessor.  

The Wisconsin Municipal Assessors List can be found here: https://www.revenue.wi.gov/DOR%20Publications/assrlist.pdf

Please visit the Wisconsin Department of Revenue website for more information on the Wisconsin Lottery and Gaming Credit Program.

The permitting process for construction of a new home depends on a variety of factors.  Please review this permitting guide and then consult with Development & Land Services Staff for additional information.

Depending on where you live, chances are your property is zoned by your local municipality, whether it be the township you live in or Outagamie County.  For more information on Town vs County zoning, click HERE for a short guide.  In short, zoning is a tool used by local governments to promote orderly growth and certainty for residential, agricultural, commercial, public, and industrial land uses.   Each zone will have its own unique set of development standards, setbacks, and land uses that are allowed by right or special exception.

A sanitary permit is needed anytime a property owner does any of the following:

• Installs a new or replacement Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment System (POWTS)
• Modifies an existing POWTS
• Makes a new connection to an existing POWTS (ie, new construction with bathroom)
• Adds additional bedrooms to an existing residential structure

Property owners cannot file a Sanitary Permit application.  Applications need to be made by a plumbing contractor and are filed electronically through the county website.  Further questions can be directed towards a Sanitary Inspector.

• When you acquire property some decide to survey their property to locate property boundaries and to monument your property corners. Having an accurate survey of your property will give you a clear understanding of where your property boundaries are.
• If a neighbor disputes where the lot line is between your properties, an accurate survey can be a useful document showing where property boundaries are located. 
• If you are building a fence along any of your property lines, knowing where you property line and property corners are can aid in proper placing of the fence.  The fence needs to be installed accurately inside your property.  Property boundary disputes can occur when fences are built without a proper understanding of where property lines are located, and a fence gets built on the neighbors’ side of the line.

The Register of Deeds Department has records of all recorded documents, including Deeds.
Please visit their website here for more information on how to obtain a copy of the recorded deed to your property. 

Not all properties have a survey.  If a property is in a subdivision, the Register of Deeds has a copy of that Subdivision.  If you are looking to see if a survey was prepared at some point on a particular property, follow these steps:

1. Go to the County PLSS (Public Land Survey System) GIS Map by clicking HERE.
2. Zoom the map to the location of the property and click on the property.
3. Select the tab “View Plat of Survey Documents”. Click through the list to see if the property is among the Plat of Surveys within the list.

Please contact Development & Land Services Staff with further questions.

Prior year County Assessment Rolls and Tax Rolls can be found on the Outagamie County Open Data website: https://data-ocgis.opendata.arcgis.com/.  Current assessment year Assessment Rolls and Tax Rolls will be available in January of the following year.  For example:  The 2020 Rolls will be posted to the Open Data Website in January 2021.

The Wisconsin Municipal Assessors List can be found here:  https://www.revenue.wi.gov/DOR%20Publications/assrlist.pdf

The Outagamie County Sanitary Ordinance, Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources require that septic maintenance is conducted once every three years or when sludge levels in the septic tank is one third of the volume of the tank.  The county is required to ensure compliance with the state requirements as well as keep and maintain records on all Private Onsite Waste Treatment Systems (POWTS) within the county.

If you have received a pumping notice from the county, our records indicate that the last time your system was pumped was three years ago, please contact a pumper of your choice to complete the maintenance. Further information on your system can be found HERE.