Willamette Valley
Marion County, Oregon Building Department and Permits
Marion County, Oregon building department and permit records in one place. See the issuing agency, the search portal, and what the record can miss.
Wildfire code, section R327
No adoption record found checked 2026-08-05
Verified fields
Permit authority
- authority
- Marion County Public Works, Building Inspection Division
- septic
- MCBI administers septic in ALL of Marion County INCLUDING INSIDE EVERY CITY, as a DEQ contract agent.
- lbdd corroboration
- State directory lists "Marion County", building official Chris Trussell, phone 503-588-5147.
Contact
- address
- 5155 Silverton Road NE, Salem OR 97305
- address CORRECTION
- CORRECTED. Not Lancaster Dr NE. 2421 Lancaster Dr NE is Marion County Health and Human Services, a different department.
- phone
- 503-588-5147
- [email protected]
- building official
- Chris Trussell, 503-566-3977
- hours
- Mon-Fri 08:00-17:00. No new applications after 16:30. Field inspections 08:30-16:00.
Contracted city model
- finding
- THE MOST USEFUL OPERATIONAL FACT FOR MARION COUNTY.
- county served
- Keizer, Stayton, Mt. Angel, Sublimity, Aumsville, Turner, Jefferson, Gervais, Hubbard, Donald, St. Paul, Scotts Mills, Detroit, Idanha, Gates
- split city
- Woodburn: city does building and mechanical; COUNTY does plumbing and electrical.
- other
- Salem, Silverton and Aurora run their own. Mill City is served by LINN County, straddling the line.
Design criteria
- wind
- Risk Category I 92 mph, II 98 mph, III 104 mph, IV 108 mph, per OSSC Table 1609.3
- seismic
- C, D0 and D1 for one and two family, VARYING BY MAPPED LOCATION per ORSC R301.2.2
- frost in
- 12
- foundation detail
- Stemwall at least 6 inches above finished grade; top of foundation at least 12 inches above street gutter plus 2 percent.
- ground snow
- NO county value and NO elevation table. Deferred to the SEAO site-specific lookup.
- soil bearing
- No county-specific value. Defers to ORSC Table R401.4.1.
Santiam canyon finding
- conclusion
- A POST-2020 SANTIAM CANYON REBUILD WAS NOT REQUIRED BY COUNTY CODE TO MEET IGNITION-RESISTANT STANDARDS. Buyers should not assume otherwise.
- rebuild docs
- Historic Property Line Options for Building and for Septic, addressing survey pins destroyed by fire. URLs surfaced, not fetched.
- flag
- The Wildfire Recovery Packet PDF is a 6.7 MB scanned image with no text layer. Needs OCR.
Lbdd directory
- bcd administered
- No
- jurisdictions serving this county
- Aurora, Marion County, Salem, Silverton, Woodburn
- jurisdiction count
- 5
The record is half the picture
A permit search shows what was filed, not what was built. The gap between the two is what a general home inspection exists to find.
Anyone inspecting in Marion County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.
Cities in this county with a filed record
Neighboring counties in Willamette Valley