Algoma vs Kewaunee: Call 416 Fremont, Not Kewaunee
Updated: Sep 2
City of Algoma Hall sits at 416 Fremont Street. Clerk Erin Mueller and Treasurer Jamie Jackson share (920) 487-5203. After ten nights in the July 1 through June 30 license year, the posted city fee is $100, and the first stay cannot be six or fewer consecutive days until that license is issued. DATCP tourist-rooming-house licensing sits statewide at (608) 224-4923. City room tax is 6 percent.
Kewaunee city hall is a different city entirely. Its own extract shows $18,551 across 33 listings, with April as the hole month, Chicago as the origin market, and a 4.5-night average stay. That clerk does not issue Algoma's $100 license, and Algoma's clerk does not collect Kewaunee's tax.
A separate Town of Algoma figure of $17,316 belongs to the Oshkosh / Winnebago area, not this Kewaunee County shoreline. The $15,882 City of Algoma extract does not pick which hall covers the driveway; the tax map does. Confirm the parcel before you dial anyone.
Pick the Clerk the Tax Map Names
Pick the clerk from the tax map, not from the lake name on the listing tile. City of Algoma paper lives at 416 Fremont; Kewaunee city paper lives at Kewaunee hall; Door County paper lives one county north. Milwaukee is the origin market on this AirROI sample, who booked, not which desk licenses the stay. A guest who starts in Milwaukee still sleeps on one driveway with one clerk. Two pins keeps the Algoma and Kewaunee years apart; this page keeps the phone numbers apart.
If the listing tile says Door County and the parcel is inside City of Algoma, the tile is already wrong. If it says Kewaunee and the parcel is Algoma, recut the identity before you call. The clerk will ask for an address, not a shore brand. Say the street, ask whether you are inside the city limits, ask whether you will exceed ten nights in the July 1 through June 30 year, and ask whether the first stay is six nights or fewer. Those questions are the product. A lake name is not a clerk; Fremont is the clerk when the map says City of Algoma.
Once the hall is confirmed, the host-side extract for City of Algoma shows a typical year of $15,882 across 41 listings at a $244 ADR and 31.1 percent occupancy. Peak-3 runs August, October, and July, with February as the hole; year over year is down 21.8 percent and professionally managed share sits at 24.4 percent. Keep Kewaunee's $18,551 figure labeled to Kewaunee. The clerk does not print that year, the clerk prints whether this driveway can legally try to earn it. If the map says Algoma, call (920) 487-5203.
City Hall Sits at 416 Fremont Street
City Hall sits at 416 Fremont Street, Algoma, WI 54201; the general email is algoma@algomacity.org. Clerk Erin Mueller handles the short-term license and Treasurer Jamie Jackson handles quarterly room tax, both share (920) 487-5203. Ordinance 844, Chapter 28 Article V, is the live stack; treat AirROI "Low" as a scrape, not a permit. The license year runs July 1 through June 30. After ten nights you need the city license at the posted $100 fee, displayed inside the main entrance door. Parking is one on-site off-street space per four occupants.
Bring the address to that building. Do not mail the packet to a Door County peninsula clerk, and do not walk it into Kewaunee city hall hoping someone will redirect it. City STR rules walks the ordinance line by line; startup cost prices night one; financing repeats the desks so a DSCR note does not lose them. This section only names the building, a loan packet that lists the wrong hall is already a costume.
The same City of Algoma extract shows RevPAR at $76, a 3.7-night average stay, a 57-day lead, Milwaukee as origin, and supply up 36.7 percent year over year. Of the professionally managed share (24.4 percent), Krissi holds 6 units and Evolve holds 4. Keep Kewaunee's $18,551 on its own line. Fremont is the hall; the harbor is the walk, file the hall on Fremont, not on a peninsula street.
License After Ten Nights Is $100
Call (920) 487-5203 and ask for the clerk on a license question or the treasurer on a room-tax question, same number, named people Erin Mueller and Jamie Jackson. Confirm current 2026 packet details if the city updates them; the 2025 STR packet posted $100 as the application and renewal figure. Until the license is issued, the first stay cannot be six or fewer consecutive days; after it is issued, later stays in that year may be. Say that sequence out loud so you do not advertise a six-night weekend before the paper exists.
Do not call DATCP and ask them to issue the city license, and do not call the city and ask them to issue DATCP paperwork, two desks, two phones. Tourism data will not make this call for you. Shanty Days weekend does not move the clerk, August peak does not move the clerk, and a year-over-year drop of 21.8 percent does not waive the clerk. Lead time on this AirROI sample is 57 days; you do not have weeks to spend on the wrong line.
Eight of the 41 listings already carry a 30-plus night minimum (19.5 percent of the mix). That filter does not replace the $100 city license or the first-stay rule. Keep Kewaunee's $18,551 labeled. Write (920) 487-5203 on the packet and call it before you photograph the pierhead light as if the license already existed, paper first, photos second.
Room Tax Is 6 Percent With the Treasurer
Treasurer Jamie Jackson sits on the city's 6 percent room tax under Chapter 40 Article II, Section 40-24 (Ordinance 856, adopted October 6, 2025, published October 10, 2025). The rate applies to furnishing rooms, lodging, or sites to transients. Reports are quarterly: 70 percent goes to the Algoma Area Chamber of Commerce as the tourism entity and 30 percent is retained by the city. Wisconsin sales tax is a separate DOR filing. Do not paste Town of Ahnapee's 6 percent as a second city rate. Ord. 856 already locks City of Algoma at 6 percent.
Remittance is not occupancy, not T12, and not visitor-spend marketing copy. Call (920) 487-5203 for the quarterly form; do not send it to Kewaunee or to a Door County lodging-tax desk. The treasurer is on Fremont. A soft February still files a quarter, and 31.1 percent occupancy is not a waiver. The market report covers the host year; this section is the tax line that sits next to it.
Price the 6 percent on the stay you will actually host in this city, not on a mashed shore year that blends Algoma with Kewaunee or Door County. Keep Kewaunee's $18,551 labeled. Chamber promotional copy is not the treasurer form, and Shanty Days is not the 6 percent. Write remittance, and file it on Fremont this quarter.
DATCP Sits Statewide at (608) 224-4923
Call (608) 224-4923 for DATCP licensing of a tourist rooming house under ATCP 72 (updates effective January 25, 2026); email DATCPDFSLicensing@wi.gov. Each DATCP lodging entity needs its own city STR application, and the occupant cap follows ATCP 72. Statewide paper and city paper both sit before night one on the same driveway, neither desk covers for the other. A Wisconsin DOR seller's permit, lodging inspection, liability insurance, and guest register travel with the city packet. An AirROI "Low" scrape does not skip DATCP.
Do not treat a Door County peninsula inspection story as this inspection, and do not treat the 19.5 percent of listings already on 30-plus night minimums as a DATCP skip. Thirty-plus is a platform filter, remote stays covers that filter; it does not replace the specialist. Confirm the entity name, the live DATCP line, and the inspection form the city still wants. City-side penalties run $200 to $2,500 per offense, each day a separate offense, that is not DATCP's line, and DATCP is not the city's $100 fee.
Superhost share on this AirROI sample sits at 56.1 percent. DATCP does not print the $15,882 typical year; DATCP prints whether the house can operate as a tourist rooming house. Call the specialist, then call Fremont. Statewide is not city, city is not statewide, and both sit before night one. Confirm the entity and the address, then furnish.
Kewaunee Hall Is Another City
Kewaunee hall is another city. Label their row separately: $18,551 on 33 listings, ADR $252, occupancy 32.9 percent, RevPAR $95, peak-3 August/July/June, hole in April, Chicago origin, 4.5-night stay, 66-day lead, professionally managed 12.1 percent, superhost 72.7 percent, year over year minus 20.9 percent, supply plus 50.0 percent. Their clerk does not issue this $100 license, and this clerk does not collect their tax. Confirm the tax map before you advertise.
A listing tile that mixes the two halls will fail the first phone call. Say Algoma and Fremont, or say Kewaunee and mean Kewaunee. Who books an Algoma rental centers on Milwaukee as origin; Kewaunee's origin is Chicago. Origin does not pick the clerk, the driveway does. Town of Algoma's $17,316 Oshkosh/Winnebago figure (Saint Paul origin, $639 ADR) is not this county. Do not mail Oshkosh paper to 416 Fremont, and do not tell Erin Mueller you are in Winnebago.
Two cities, two halls, two hole months. February here, April there. A shared lake does not merge clerks, and a shared August peak does not merge licenses. Their Chicago origin is not your Milwaukee origin. Write the hall that matches the deed.
Confirm the Parcel Before You Advertise
Confirm the parcel before the first live night and before the first live sentence. Inside City of Algoma, the stack is Ordinance 844 plus the treasurer's 6 percent. Outside the city, this page does not own the desk. A Kewaunee County pin is not automatically a City of Algoma pin; Town of Ahnapee is not this hall; Door County is not this hall. Photograph the pierhead light only after you know the driveway is Algoma, how to market an Algoma stay assumes that confirmation already happened.
Advertising a six-night weekend before the license exists is the expensive kind of copy. First stay cannot be six or fewer consecutive days until licensed; ten nights without a license is the city line; fewer than ten nights in the license year means no city license is required, those are different facts. Confirm which one you are in. Confirm DATCP on the same driveway, parking at one space per four occupants, and the door display. Then publish the tile.
Confirm city limits, the license year, the first-stay rule, DATCP, parking, and the door display before you hit publish. A live tile ahead of those checks is expensive copy, and Fremont will not recut a blended costume for you. Keep Kewaunee's $18,551 on its own line and advertise this city only after the parcel is confirmed.
What to Bring to the Clerk
Bring the address, the tax-map print, the planned night count for the July 1 through June 30 year, the DATCP entity, a DOR seller's permit path, lodging inspection, liability insurance, a guest-register plan, parking math at one space per four occupants, and $100 if you will exceed ten nights. Bring the first-stay calendar so you do not promise six or fewer consecutive days before the license exists, and bring the quarterly room-tax question for Jamie Jackson. Bring nothing from a Door County packet, and nothing from a Kewaunee packet unless the map says Kewaunee.
Shoulder season can sit in the folder as the calendar; DIY versus hire can sit as context for the 24.4 percent professionally managed share (Krissi 6, Evolve 4). The clerk does not need those pages to issue paper, the clerk needs the address and the ordinance facts. The visitor guide is for guests; leave it off the counter. This desk is 416 Fremont, this phone is (920) 487-5203, and the statewide DATCP line is (608) 224-4923.
Bring the real parcel, call the real desk, and file the real City of Algoma year ($15,882 typical, 3.7-night stay, 57-day lead, Milwaukee origin) later. Leave the pierhead-light photo shoot off this counter until the paper is in. Keep Kewaunee's $18,551 and the Oshkosh-area Town of Algoma $17,316 figure labeled away from this packet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which clerk should an Algoma driveway call?
Call the clerk the tax map actually names. City of Algoma sits at 416 Fremont, (920) 487-5203, Clerk Erin Mueller. Kewaunee city hall is another city, and Door County is another county. Milwaukee is the origin market on this AirROI sample, not the licensing jurisdiction. If the listing tile says Door County and the parcel is Algoma, recut the identity before you dial, the clerk wants an address, not a shore brand.
Where is City of Algoma Hall for short-term rental paper?
City Hall is 416 Fremont Street, Algoma, WI 54201. Clerk Erin Mueller and Treasurer Jamie Jackson share (920) 487-5203. The license year runs July 1 through June 30; after ten nights you need the city license, displayed inside the main door. Parking is one space per four occupants. Do not mail that packet to a Door County peninsula clerk.
What is the clerk phone for an Algoma license question?
Call (920) 487-5203. Ask for the clerk on a license question and the treasurer on a room-tax question. Until licensed, the first stay cannot be six or fewer consecutive days. Do not call DATCP for the city license, and do not call the city for DATCP paperwork. Shanty Days weekend does not move this desk, and a 21.8 percent year-over-year drop does not waive it.
Who sits on Algoma's six percent room tax?
Treasurer Jamie Jackson sits on the 6 percent room tax under Chapter 40-24, Ordinance 856. Reports are quarterly to the City Treasurer: 70 percent goes to the Algoma Area Chamber of Commerce and 30 percent stays with the city. Wisconsin sales tax is a separate DOR filing. Do not paste Town of Ahnapee's rate as a second city figure. Remittance is not occupancy.
What is the DATCP number next to the Algoma city desk?
Call (608) 224-4923 for DATCP tourist rooming house licensing under ATCP 72 (updates effective January 25, 2026). Each DATCP lodging entity needs its own city STR application, and the occupant cap follows ATCP 72. An AirROI 'Low' scrape does not skip this desk, and neither does the share of listings already on 30-plus night minimums. Statewide paper and city paper travel together before night one.
Is Kewaunee city hall the same STR desk as Algoma?
No. Kewaunee hall is another city. Their extract shows $18,551 on 33 listings, an April hole, Chicago origin, a 4.5-night stay, and 12.1 percent professionally managed. Their clerk does not issue Algoma's $100 license, and the clerk at 416 Fremont does not collect Kewaunee's tax. Town of Algoma's separate $17,316 Oshkosh/Winnebago figure is a third desk entirely, do not mail that paper to Fremont.
What should I confirm before I advertise an Algoma stay?
Confirm the parcel is inside City of Algoma. Confirm whether you will exceed ten nights in the July 1 through June 30 year. Confirm the first stay is not six or fewer consecutive days until licensed. Confirm DATCP, parking at one space per four occupants, and the door display. Do not advertise a blended listing that mixes Algoma and Kewaunee facts and hope the clerk sorts it out.
What do I bring to 416 Fremont?
Bring the address, tax map, planned night count, DATCP entity, DOR path, inspection, insurance, guest-register plan, parking math, and $100 if you will exceed ten nights. Bring the first-stay calendar and the quarterly room-tax question for Jamie Jackson. Leave Door County packets at home and leave the visitor guide off the counter, this desk wants the parcel, not the tourism pitch.
Does a 30-night minimum fill Algoma's slow month?
No. A 30-night minimum is a platform filter. The typical stay on this AirROI sample is still a short 3.7-night trip, and February remains the hole month whether or not the filter is on. A share of listings already carry 30-plus settings, but that setting does not replace city or DATCP paper, or change the actual typical-stay length.
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