North Dakota, Williams County
Where Williston's records are kept. Williston has its own city government and fire department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Williston's own offices, along with State of North Dakota offices; the Williams County offices are on our Williams County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The State Historical Society's archives in Bismarck holds North Dakota state and local government records, manuscripts, newspapers and photographs, with genealogy and vital records guides; appointments are recommended.
Open official site North Dakota State ArchivesCounty court
One clerk's office in Fargo, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., handles North Dakota's federal bankruptcy cases; the site carries PACER and e-filing links, the court calendar, opinions and fee schedule.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of North DakotaCounty court
Search North Dakota district court criminal, traffic and civil cases, plus some municipal court cases, and make payments on criminal or traffic cases by county; restricted case information is left out.
Open official site North Dakota Court System District Court Case SearchVital records
Orders for certified North Dakota birth, death and fetal death records go online, by mail or by appointment and take 5 to 7 business days; the office also keeps a public death index.
Open official site North Dakota Health and Human Services Vital RecordsPolice & jail
The state corrections agency's site, with a Resident Lookup covering only people currently held in its facilities, plus public dashboards on incarceration populations and parole releases.
Open official site North Dakota Department of Corrections and RehabilitationPolice & jail
The North Dakota Attorney General's statewide list gives each missing person's age, last seen date and investigating agency phone number, with photos where available, plus separate searches for missing children and Indigenous persons.
Open official site North Dakota Missing PersonsPolice & jail
Kept by the North Dakota Attorney General, the registry finds offenders by name, city, county or distance from an address, maps them and sends email alerts on changes.
Open official site North Dakota Sex Offender RegistryFederal
QuickFacts table for Williston city, North Dakota with a July 1, 2025 population estimate of 29,522, a 2020 to 2024 median household income of $79,381, and figures on housing, schooling and health insurance.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
City of Williston, with the clerk records, meeting minutes and permit information the local government publishes.
Open official site City of WillistonPolice & jail
Williston Police Department site on the City of Williston web system, linking open records requests, the municipal court, the Williams County dispatch center and code enforcement complaints.
Open official site Williston Police DepartmentCity records
317 11th Street West Williston, North Dakota 58802 Phone 701-572-3400 Fax 701-572-6602
Open official site Williston Fire DepartmentCity records
Williston Economic Development, a City of Williston department at 113 4th St E, phone 701-577-8110, offers STAR Fund business incentives, community grants and small business help.
Open official site Williston Economic DevelopmentEverything else, organized
12 more Williston sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Williston, a place of 29,160 people, is the seat of Williams County. Court and property records sit with Williams County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of North Dakota. Williston's own offices are in the cards above, and our Williams County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 4 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 past producers, now closed, 2 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 18 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. The PSC asks anyone building in a historic lignite mining town to ask the AML program first.
Williston sits over the Fort Union Region coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by North Dakota Public Service Commission, Abandoned Mine Lands and linked below.
North Dakota abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 30 investigations with a Williston address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,039,356 in back wages agreed for 310 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newalta Environmental Services, Inc. | 1 | $828,584 | 105 |
| Gemini Resources Group LLC | 1 | $22,510 | 4 |
| Williston Airport Inn Partners, LLC | 2 | $14,251 | 44 |
| Pro-Frac Heating & Trucking, LLC | 1 | $11,051 | 1 |
| McCody Concrete Products, Inc. | 1 | $7,293 | 2 |
| Target Logistics Management LLC | 1 | $5,976 | 47 |
| A and A Landscape & Maintenance of ND, LLC | 1 | $5,453 | 7 |
| Target Logistics | 1 | $4,651 | 34 |
| New Products Marketing Corp. | 1 | $4,434 | 14 |
| Squix Cleaning Services Inc. | 2 | $710 | 7 |
| Williams, County of (North Dakota) | 1 | $462 | 4 |
| Kelley's LTD | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| J. K. Foods, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Wolf Oil Field Services, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| WBT, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Tervita, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| ABCO Recycling, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Liberty Oilfield Services LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| B & E Trucking | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Oil States International Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Triangle Electric | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Treadstone Environmental Services LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| AM Restaurant, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Meg-A-Latte LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Border States | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Williston, by back wages agreed; 9 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The North Dakota wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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North Dakota has no voter registration. Voters show an ID with their name, North Dakota residential address and date of birth at the polls; the North Dakota Secretary of State site lists the ID rules and polling places.
Deeds for property in Williston are recorded by the Williams County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Williams County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in North Dakota come from the state vital records office, North Dakota Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.