The documents of the Landrat (District Councillor's Office) Cheb were transferred to the archive from the building of the District National Committee Cheb in 1958. In 1959 the fonds was arranged. In the 1960s the fonds was transferred to the State Archives in Plzeň. In 1984 the documents from the branch Regional State Archives Plzeň – Žlutice were transferred back to Cheb. After the revision of the fonds in 1993 another 24 boxes and 5 bundles of documents of the District Councillor's Office Cheb were found and appended to the fonds of this office.