South Dakota -- Roberts County

Scope and Contents This series consists of audit reports for state agencies, counties, municipalities, and school districts. Audit reports contain financial statements concerning receipts and expenditures; commentary on recordkeeping practices; and suggestions for improving those procedures.

Scope and Contents This series contains the meeting minutes for the Roberts County Board of Commissioners from 1884-1901 and the July 1900 County Seat Petitions.

Scope and Contents This series contains court records for both criminal and civil trials in Roberts County from 1929-1951. The series consists of cases 6001-8299 but not all case files are accounted for within the series; most notably, the case files 6478-6827 are absent with various other case files missing throughout the series. Within each court case file there are judgments, evidence, correspondence and other items related to each case.

Scope and Contents This series consists of tax records and documents used in the assessing of taxes on institutions and individuals in Roberts County during the first part of the 20th century. Records include reports from the Redfield School for the Feeble Minded, Yankton State Hospital Records, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, heavy farm machinery applications and personal property tax records.

Scope and Contents This series contains documents relating to the sale, purchase and use of liquor within Roberts County from 1883 through 1935. Also found within this series are county butcher reports and the registration records of dance halls within Roberts County from 1921-1933 .

Scope and Contents This series contains records regarding the hearings of juvenile delinquent cases at the Roberts County Courthouse, cases 1-174. The records for juvenile insanity and feeblemindedness cases in Roberts County are also found within this series and consist of court hearing records from 1895-1932.

Scope and Contents This series consists of eight volumes of original appraisal records for lands adjacent to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad in Brown, Day, Edmunds, Grant, Roberts, and Walworth Counties, South Dakota; the city of Aberdeen, SD; and McIntosh County, North Dakota. Records for each valuation section include plats of lands adjacent to the railroad right-of-way and the assessed valuations of those properties; geographical and topographical descriptions of the surrounding environment;...

Scope and Contents This accession consists of seventy volumes of original appraisal records (circa 1918-1920) for lands adjacent to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad in various counties throughout South Dakota. Records within each valuation section volume include plat maps of lands adjacent to the railroad right-of-way and the assessed valuations of those properties; geographical and topographical descriptions of the surrounding environment; appraisal questionnaires completed by local residents...

Scope and Contents This record group contains records created and maintained by county government agencies and officials in Roberts County, South Dakota and includes insane and tuberculosis commitment records; township correspondence regarding roads, bridges, and utilities; County Commission minutes; civil and criminal court case files; school records and teacher reports; and tax records.

Scope and Contents This series contains the case files of individuals who received assistance from the Works Progress Administration program in Roberts County. Records are arranged numerically by case number. The bulk of the collection arrived on July 9, 1976 but in 1990 three additional folders were transferred to the Archives. These folders pertain to specific families from 1935 to 1980 these folders can be found at the end of the series. Please see box list for more information.

Scope and Contents This series contains the case files of individuals who received assistance from the Works Progress Administration program in Roberts County. Records are arranged numerically by case number. The bulk of the collection arrived on July 9, 1976 but in 1990 three additional folders were transferred to the Archives. These folders pertain to specific families from 1935 to 1980 these folders can be found at the end of the series. Please see box list for more information.

Scope and Contents This series contains the tax records from the Roberts County Treasurer’s office from 1882-1930 including delinquent and inheritance tax records, the annual treasurer reports from 1898-1905 and correspondence between the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railway Company and the county treasurer from 1916-1939.

Scope and Contents This series contains quarterly teacher reports from all the school districts within Roberts County from the year 1915 through the year 1919. Also found in this series are the school censuses for the county from 1949-1958 and the annual District Clerk reports from 1945-1959. Records are arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents This series consists of township correspondence and records in Roberts County. The majority of records are those pertaining to the road and bridges of the townships with remaining records being correspondence regarding utility maps for telephone and electric lines.