WELCOME TO FLORENCE, WISCONSIN 1925 PLAT MAPS

TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH - 18 EAST

Welcome to our first online set of PLAT MAPS for Florence County GenWeb Project. If you are familiar with PLAT MAPS, you already appreciate their value in genealogy and family history. If you haven't worked with PLAT MAPS before, here's a brief

explanation:

PLAT MAPS are maps of a county, divided into townships that show property ownership, the locations of schools, cemeteries, churches and town halls, etc. Each TOWNSHIP is assigned a TOWNSHIP and RANGE number, i.e. T.39N R.16E. Each 36-square-mile parcel identified by a township and range number is further divided into 36 SECTIONS, each section theoretically being 1 square mile, or 640 acres. The cells are numbered "boustrophedonically", or "as the cow plows", which means that the numbers wrap around in an "s" shape. Such a numbering system was easier for the surveyors to use when they were doing the original surveying.

And what if I find my ancestor's name on the plat map? Since plat maps are lists of LAND OWNERSHIP, you then know that your ancestor OWNED PROPERTY in Florence County. There will be a record of the DEED filed at the courthouse when the property was purchased, possibly a mortgage was filed when acquiring the property, records when the property was sold and if the ancestor died while owning the property, there will be a will or probate record explaining how the property was disposed of following his/her death.

As you can see from some of these maps, a large portion of the land was owned by the Railroads and Timber Companies. These older maps do not reflect land set aside for the Nicolet National Forest (1933).

I will be posting more of these PLAT MAPS as I locate them -- if you have access to any of the OLDER PLAT MAPS (prior to 1940), please consider sharing them with us. It's as simple as scanning in the pages via email or sending xeroxed copies in -- the pages you are looking at are from the 1925 Florence Plat Maps. They were from a paper copy xerox made possible by the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison. Many thanks to their Map Department.

This map will take a while to load and is best viewed "maximized" computer screen width. I decided to keep the maps LARGE so that the names & details are easily read.

TOWNSHIP LAND OWNERS BY SECTION

SECTION 1 O W___RIGHT P McGOVERN W M LAND CO E F ELWELL E POLDERMAN ET AL A BJORKMAN ET AL E L ROGER	SECTION 2 E POLDERMAN ET AL J A VAN STEVE E H JONES ESTATE WAKEFIELD M L CO W DURAND M C PIEKTE ET AL J GOODREAN A LAUDWALL	SECTION 3 C PETERSON S G CO K NEVARENTO P FOSTER LAND CO H JOHNSON ALBERT PAULIN ERNEST PAULIN ANN? ERICKSON G JOHNSON
SECTION 4 COMMONWEALTH IRON CO J S McDONALD F JOHNSON J JACKOLA P JOHNSON	SECTION 5 COMMONWEALTH IRON CO PEWABIC CO L BARRA WAKEFIELD LAND CO SPIES L & C CO S - G CO J S McDONALD T KAVANAUGH	SECTION 6 M COSGROVE COLBURN STEWART? M SELLS ET AL JAMES DOYLE M FIELD ESTATE
SECTION 7 LAKE EMILY R G WERNER G F SANBORN CO T KAVANAUGH PETER I McGOVERN	SECTION 8 PETER I McGOVERN T KAVANAUGH G F SANBORN LAKE EMILY O B LINDE J YUNGER	SECTION 9 T KAVANAUGH P McGOVERN M FIELD ESTATE J LEPONEN J C MIKE HUNKOLA JOS COLEMAN J JACKOLA
SECTION 10 C COLEMAN PFISTER LAND CO ET AL J RUDSTROM A LAUDWELL A GOODREARE E BREITUNG ESTATE	SECTION 11 FLORENCE IRON CO E BREITUNG ESTATE E H JONES ET AL M COSGROVE JONES LAND CO SPIES L & C CO J A JOHNSON H & M CO BRULE LAND & M CO	SECTION 12 E POLDERMAN ET AL E F ELWELL H LAND CO A BJORKMAN hamilton merryman co J RUDSTROM
SECTION 13 A BJORKMAN J W WELLS LUMBER CO E F ELWELL SAWYER GOODMAN CO ET AL J B GOODMAN H & M CO	SECTION 14 A BJORKMAN J W WELLS LUMBER CO JONES LAND CO H ANDERSON ESTATE J D LINDON F METZ FLORENCE IRON CO BEYER & SMITH	SECTION 15 JONES LAND CO H ANDERSON ESTATE GIRARD LUMBER CO J H PHINNING PFISTER LAND CO T W WELLS LUMBER
SECTION 16 S O BERG P RONKA T KAVANAUGH H ANDERSON ANNA COOK J AHOLA C J ERICKSON	SECTION 17 T KAVANAUGH H ANDERSON R G WERNER MAX SELLS ET AL J J JOHNSON PEWABIC CO	SECTION 18 R G WERNER OLIVER MINING CO G W YOUNGS MARY COSGROVE MAX SELLS ET AL
SECTION 19 MAX SELLS ET AL OLIVER MINING CO PFISTER LAND CO	SECTION 20 OLIVER MINING CO	SECTION 21 OLIVER MINING CO
SECTION 22 E BREITUNG - OLIVER MINING CO COMMONWEALTH IRON CO	SECTION 23 LYDIA PAYNE L W PAYNE C O ESTATE PINE R CLUB E E GRAY NATIONAL L & I CO A BJORKMAN & M SELLS	SECTION 24 PINE R CLUB A BJORKMAN W F CARR
SECTION 25 J W WELLS LUMBER CO NATIONAL LAND & IRON CO	SECTION 26 J W WELLS LUMBER CO M SELLS ET AL J W WELLS L CO H & M CO H T SPITTER?	SECTION 27 PINE RIVER E BREITUNG & OLIVER MINING CO J H SMITH ET AL MURPHY LUMBER CO
SECTION 28 E BREITUNG & OLIVER MINING CO OLIVER MINING CO ET AL J KIERMAN	SECTION 29 M SELLS ET AL PINE RIVER J D JONES G D JONES E E P ESTATE J H SMITH ET AL H & M CO T KAVANAUGH ESTATE NATIONAL IRON CO	SECTION 30 J H SMITH ET AL PATTEN PAPER CO
SECTION 31 LUDINGTON, WELLS & US CO T KAVANAUGH	SECTION 32 T KAVANAUGH ESTATE LUDINGTON, WELLS & US CO J KIERMAN	SECTION 33 J KIERMAN ROACH BROTHERS D ROACH
SECTION 34 D ROACH & SON R P HALLOW J KIERMAN	SECTION 35 J J ESIDE A G WALZ S WALZ G NYSTROM J B GOODMAN CO J W WEEKS LUMBER CO	SECTION 36 P McGOVERN NATIONAL IRON CO BEYER & SMITH J B GOODMAN CO