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Sandrock Cliffs, Fickle Site, Yellow River Swamp Site

Assorted records from the court, including materials relating to the organization of the Village of Siren, 1913; one certificate of ordination, 1938; one marriage license, 1906; criminal statistics, 1932; one defendant tally sheet, 1936; a certification for the Union Indemnity Company, 1931; a court order designating the First National Bank of Grantsburg as a public depository, 1937; and two memorials, one to lawyer and judge William R. Foley, 1940, and one to circuit court clerk Newton Hickerson, 1909.

Proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors, published annually in pamphlet form under the provisions of Wisconsin Laws of 1901, Ch. 298, Sec. 3; including the County Clerk's minutes of each meeting of the County Board, and documents considered by the Board at each meeting. Documents include: petitions, memorials, communications, and claims addressed to the Board; reports of county officers and of Board committees; resolutions and ordinances; and other papers relating to operations, services, finances, planning, and policy of county government.

Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors including minutes of Board meetings, resolutions, committee reports, reports of county officers and commissions, financial reports, and communications to the Board. The 1877-1881 volume is a photocopy of the original. (The original volume was charred in a courthouse fire prior to 1887, so it was photocopied for preservation and then discarded.) Volume A is an exact transcription of official proceedings as published in the Burnett County Sentinel. (The original volume for some of these years was destroyed in the courthouse fire.).

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 these years: 1930, 1943/4, 1944/5, 1947/8, 1949/50, 1959/60-1974, 1978, 1979, and 2004-2014. Additional directories may have been added since this cataloging.

Statements of real and personal property assessment and tax apportionment for each assessment district. Assessment statements show number of livestock and other items of personality, acreage, valuations, and total assessment.

Audit reports and supporting papers submitted to the board of supervisors by the Bureau of Municipal Audit or by public accountants employed by the board to make the annual audit.
Each report contains a statement by the auditor on the condition of the financial records of the county and any errors which were found. Summary financial statements of all the county funds showing the receipts, disbursements, and balances of the various funds for the year follows.

Board of Canvassers' statements of election returns, showing date and type of election, candidates or issues, and the number of votes received.

Reports of real estate sales recorded in the register of deeds office, submitted to the clerk by the Wisconsin Tax Commission under Chapter 522, Laws of 1907, showing assessment district, date of sale, date the sale was recorded, volume and page where recorded, grantor, grantee, land description, acreage, consideration given in the deed, assessed valuation given on the tax roll, and totals for each assessment district and the county.
The 1911 report gives total figures on sales data and assessed valuations for each assessment district and the county, ratio of assessed to true value, and ratio of each district to the county total. With the 1911 report is the Statistical Report of the Supervisor of Assessments for 1911, which contains assessment data and a table showing the market value of real estate by towns from 1906 to 1910.

Record of elected or appointed town and village clerks, justices of the peace, notaries, constables, and deputy sheriffs as reported to the county clerk. Entries give name, office held, post office of official and length of term. Volume A: 1888-1927; Volume [2]: 1936-1955.

Records of marriages performed by the county judge.