Annual printed directories of public officials having jurisdiction within the county, prepared and published by the county clerk. Directories list national and state officers and legislators, court justices and officers, county board members, county officers and certain county employees, and town, village, and city officers and supervisors.
More recent directories also show members of each county board standing committee, and U.S. census population totals for each local unit.
Included are directories for the following years: 1908-1910, 1912-1914, 1916-1920, 1922, 1924-1927, 1929-1980, 1986-1989, 1992-1993, 1996-1998, 2000-2003, and 2005-2019. Additional directories may have been added since this cataloging.

Reports and papers filed by the City Clerk including petitions, communications, and reports to the Common Council; Council resolutions and ordinances; utility franchises; copies of legislative acts, 1857-1860, chartering and amending the charter of the city; and other records.

Papers concerning the families of Ira, George, and Clark Smith of Elmwood, Wisconsin; consisting of legal documents on land transactions in Pierce and Dunn counties, articles by Clark Smith on his memories of Farmhill in Rock Elm Township, Pierce County, and financial and other records.

Photocopied genealogy of the Clark and Thompson families compiled by Sullivan, circa 1977.
The genealogy, 1796-1976, includes charts and copies of letters and news articles.

Papers of Clarence Julius Reiter, editor of the Hudson Star Observer, 1928-1952, primarily letters to him regarding issues in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Correspondents include Congressman James A. Frear discussing personal matters and referring to national and state politics (1929-1939), State Senator Warren P. Knowles, the county highway commissioner, a World War II soldier in France, and a resident complaining about crime and lack of action by the sheriff (1930-1947) (all in River Falls SC 27). A 1951 series of letters (in River Falls SC 213) relate to dedication ceremonies and publicity arrangements for the interstate bridge over the St. Croix River at Hudson, Wis. This file also includes an historical sketch of both the new bridge and the old toll bridge it replaced.

Statement of principles, reports of meetings, emergency operating procedures, survival plans, sequence dialing lists, and Department of Agriculture bulletins.

Account book and miscellaneous papers of the Civic League of Hudson, an organization which became the Hudson Law Enforcement League in 1916.
Recorded are receipts, disbursements, lists of members, and one entry, Nov. 1, 1917, showing a $59.45 payment for detective work.

Records, 1909-1932, of the bank, including general correspondence, general ledgers and journals, daily journals, and cash balance records; plus deposit ledgers, 1899-1918, of the Bank of Ellsworth.

Communications from the Board of Regents of Wisconsin State Colleges (State Universities after 1964). Material pertains to the State College-State University System. Includes reports of enrollment, allocations for construction, faculty salary increases, budgets, resolutions considered by the Board of Regents and agenda of meetings, as well as information concerning graduate programs, curriculum changes, and financial aid to students.

Record of judges' decisions in civil cases. Includes names of plaintiffs, defendants, a case summary, dates of actions, and name of judge. Vols. B-Q and one volume labeled "Rule Book" (1851-1957).

Records showing the daily proceedings and judgments of the courts.

Case files relating to criminal and civil cases brought before the St. Croix County Circuit Court. Cases may include complaints, summonses, warrants, motions, appeals, judgments, and orders. Criminal offenses may relate to cases such as murder, assault and battery, adultery, larceny, fornication, illegal liquor sales, vandalism, and gambling. Civil suits may involve monetary transactions, personal disputes, divorce cases, and other family court-related matters.

Records of naturalization proceedings in the Circuit Court of Burnett County. Records include Declarations of Intention (1907-1950), Petitions for Naturalization (1907-1953), Naturalization Records (1888-1906), Naturalization Petitions Granted (1929-1953), Index to Naturalizations (ca. 1870-1945), and Certificates and Oaths (1907-1944).

Criminal case files filed in Circuit Court and County Court for Burnett County. Complaints, notes, summonses, transcripts, evidence, rulings, orders, judgments, appeals, and execution orders. Cases relate to felony criminal offenses such as murder, assault and battery, adultery, larceny, fornication, rape, illegal liquor sales, vandalism, and gambling. Circuit Court ranges from approximately 1927-1948. County Court cases range from approximately 1895-1943.

Papers concerning the history of the parish of the Church of St. Anne, Somerset, Wisconsin; including reminiscences by missionary Chrysostom A. Verwyst and genealogical information on the descendants of Alexandre Belisle.

Biography of Christine Pedersen of River Falls, Wis., written by Huelskamp. The daughter of Danish immigrants, she was born in 1900 on a dairy farm on what is today the campus of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, graduated from River Falls, and was employed as a teacher and a librarian before retiring in 1965 and spending time on numerous volunteer activities.

Christian and Anna Junkman papers and photographs (undated, 1846-1918, 2021) include materials relating to Anna's parents and siblings, the extended Cope family, and well as Christian's father, William; Glen Junkman and family papers and photographs (1911-1992), also include papers of their daughter, Mary Lorenzen; Estella Clarke (nee Junkman) papers and photographs (1864-1945, 2021) also contain materials related to her husband, William, including the Clark, White, and Ingli families.

The bulk of this collection contains records relating to the approval of the chemistry program by The American Chemical Society, Committee on professional training. Programs are reviewed every 5 years, and reports and information include, but are not limited to, program and class enrollment, curriculum materials, faculty loads, budgets, and facility information. The 1990 review materials include course materials, syllabi, and student papers.

Also included in this collection are, photographs and two videos of chemistry demonstrations from the Chemistry Family Day, building program files for Centennial Science Hall, and the guestbook from the dedication of the building. The earliest records in this collection are two ledgers of meeting materials from the Chemistry Club.

Papers of Staples, an Osceola, Wisconsin, druggist and Grand Master of the State Independent Order of Odd Fellows, consisting of diary fragments, 1882-1906, speeches made before fraternal groups, clippings, and other materials.

Papers including genealogical information, photocopies of photographs, and biographical recollections of Charles N. Cox concerning his youth and family in the River Falls, Wisconsin, area.

Various household account books and insurance sales records kept by Hanson, an insurance agent probably located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin. Included are cash books, an insurance invoice register, and policy registers for Citizens Insurance of Missouri policies and Northwestern Fire and Marine Insurance Company policies.

Memoir written after 1935 by Pearson, describing his early life in Sweden and Denmark, immigration to Boston in 1880, relocation to Minneapolis in 1883, and removal to the Mann Valley area of Pierce County, Wisconsin in 1899; as transcribed and translated from the Swedish original by Edith Pearson in 1966.

Papers of Stratton, River Falls State Normal School, River Falls, Wisconsin, relating chiefly to his appointment as an assistant cartographer on the staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1918-1919; and a letter, August 19, 1925, concerning maps used by the Commission.

Photographs created by Charles Francis Smith of houses and families in the vicinity of Elmwood, Wisconsin, circa 1887-1893. Also included are index cards with detailed descriptions for many, but not all, of the included images.

Letters of Charles F. and Rachael A. Blood, including an 1860 letter from Charles to his future wife Rachael A. Sturm of Elmira, Illinois, describing his life while traveling to Pike's Peak in search of gold; an 1862 letter to Charles and Rachael from Franklin A. Blood at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin; a letter from Albert W. Harriman (Oct. 1861) in which he describes his experiences stationed with the Union Army near Washington, D.C.; and a letter (Sept. 8, 1887) from Nellie Beard to Rachael in which Beard describes conditions at the Hudson, Wisconsin school at which she was a teacher, and reports on the theft of $12,000 apparently from the school's building fund.

Reminiscences by Parker of the town of Pleasant Valley, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, in the mid-1800's; and two clippings about Parker, an early settler there.

Papers of Madsen, Progressive Party state senator from Polk County, Wisconsin, containing legislative correspondence, campaign speeches and platforms of Polk County Progressive candidates in the 1941 elections, and material relating to the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation of Polk County including a membership book.

Letters written by Charles Corcoran to his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. P. (Pat) Corcoran of River Falls, Wisconsin, during his World War I military service in the U.S. Army. Stateside letters focus on daily life as well as off-base trips to such cities as Little Rock, New York, and Philadelphia. Overseas correspondence begins on September 18, 1918 while assigned to the American Expeditionary Force in Mehun, France. Letters focus on daily life and impressions of France and England, but recount no combat action.

Miscellaneous papers of the Chapman family of River Falls, Wisconsin, consisting of three letters written by Frank Chapman to his sister Ella while he was stationed in Georgia and Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War; one Civil War letter written by "Mr. George" at Bull Run, October 15, 1863 with ink made from berry juice (with a partial transcription); a 1908 marriage invitation and certificate; deeds; and newspaper clippings.

Narrative poem written by Edwin T. Reed, a River Falls native, with a letter from him to Eunice Thompson, daughter of River Falls founder Joel Foster, explaining the factual source of the poem.

During the academic year of 1974-1975, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls celebrated its 100th anniversary since its founding as a Normal School in 1874. This collection contains the planning materials for that celebration. Records include but are not limited to, meeting materials, budgets, surveys, correspondence, photographs, event flyers, and 3D objects.

Records of the Cedar Lake Telephone Cooperative and its predecessor, the Cedar Lake Rural Telephone Company, consisting of minutes of meetings and financial records of the Company, 1907-1955. In 1955 the Company did not have sufficient funds to rehabilitate its lines for service and the Cooperative was formed. Records of the Cooperative include a corporation record book (1955-1956), check stubs (1957-1958), and stock certificates (1955).

Daily cash journal, 1872-1873, a record of transit points, and a map of the company's mill known as "Junction Mill" at River Falls, Wis.
The map shows size of buildings, type of machinery, and daily capacity. The mill was owned by A.D. Andrews and Company after 1873, then became the A.A. Freeman Flouring Mill. Accompanying these records are miscellaneous expense accounts, 1904-1911, for Fred Chinnock, a millwright in Colfax and River Falls.

Diary and scrapbook pages kept by Catherine Ronyak Walter while a student at River Falls, Wisconsin, Normal School.

This series contains catalogs for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

A history and recollection of the early schools of Prescott, Wisconsin, written in 1925 by Carrie Hutchison Babbidge and Myrtle Bailey Meacham.

Notes on the history of Beldenville, Wisconsin, by Carol Fenton Gilbertson and an essay on the 19th century history of Pierce County, Wisconsin, by Mrs. Abner Fenton.

Photocopied memoir by Nelson in which he describes his childhood in Chicago, Illinois and the Manitowoc, Marshfield, and Merrill, Wisconsin areas; and his work as a lumberjack and later as a carpenter in Milwaukee and in Lincoln County.

Anecdotes by Carl E. Warn concerning his family and events in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, where he was raised; plus a narrative poem by Will Carleton entitled "The First Settler's Story."

Papers of Carl Pemble of River Falls, Wisconsin, president of Save the St. Croix, Incorporated, a citizens' group opposed to construction of a Northern States Power Company generating plant on the St. Croix River at Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, because of its potential for ecological and recreational damage.
Also present are papers on the River Falls Committee for Human Survival, a group seeking nuclear disarmament and an end to nuclear testing.

Records of the women's club, including minutes, bylaws, membership reports and lists, correspondence, scrapbooks, scholarship and legislative files, and papers from the state and national parent organizations.

Artificially collated collection of manuscripts materials donated by a number of individuals living in or otherwise associated with Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties. Includes both primary source materials, such as abstracts, warrantee deeds, correspondence, photographs, certificates, marriage records, etc., in addition to secondary sources, such as compiled genealogies and other records. Collection is no longer being maintained or added to as of January 2020.

Index to county cemeteries located in Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties. The St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society (SCVGS) completed an extensive project in the 1980s to inventory tombstones in local cemeteries. Transcriptions were made from tombstones for most of the cemeteries in the counties of Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix by the SCVGS over the course of this project. Burnett County cemeteries were indexed by a number of volunteers.