  The conclusion of the WISE mission presents an opportune time to summarize
the history of using excess emission in the infrared as a tracer of
circumstellar material and exploit all available data for future missions such
as JWST. We have compiled a catalog of infrared excess stars from peer-reviewed
articles and perform an extensive search for new infrared excess stars by
cross-correlating the Tycho-2 and AllWISE catalogs. We define a significance of
excess in four spectral type divisions and select stars showing greater than
either 3$\sigma$ or 5$\sigma$ significance of excess in the mid- and
far-infrared. Through procedures including SED fitting and various image
analyses, each potential excess source was rigorously vetted to eliminate
false-positives. The infrared excess stars from the literature and the new
stars found through the Tycho-2 and AllWISE cross-correlation produced nearly
500 `Prime' infrared excess stars and $\geq$1200 `Reserved' stars. The main
catalog of infrared excess stars are nearby, bright, and either demonstrate
excess in more than one passband or have infrared spectroscopy confirming the
infrared excess. This study identifies stars that display a spectral energy
distribution suggestive of a secondary or post-protoplanetary generation of
dust and they are ideal targets for future optical and infrared imaging
observations. The final catalogs of stars summarizes the past work using
infrared excess to detect dust disks and with the most extensive compilation of
infrared excess stars ($\sim$ 1750) to date, we investigate various
relationships among stellar and disk parameters.
