Polk County, Wisconsin. Clerk records, 1855-1945.
- US ARC Polk Series 8
- collection
- 1855-1945
Reports and correspondence filed with the county clerk pertaining to his various capacities as recording clerk of the county board, officer of report for towns and villages, and administrator of various county programs. Included are documents and reports presented at county board meetings which often were incorporated into the proceedings of the county board, circa 1880-1919; reports to state and federal agencies including county school reports, circa 1860-1890; taxation reports, 1870-1900; reports on the sale of explosives, 1942-1945, emergency relief, 1930s, and rationing, 1941-1945; the results of a survey of county clerks in Wisconsin, 1927, regarding purchasing duties; scattered correspondence mainly pertaining to taxation and county finances, 1880-1930; a folder of undated maps of various parts of the county; and two letterpress volumes of the clerk's outgoing correspondence, 1899-1905.