WELCOME TO FLORENCE, WISCONSIN 1925 PLAT MAPS

TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH - 19 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
Thanks to hubby Bob for indexing this for me! :)

SECTION 1	SECTION 2 I BORDEAU MENOMINEE RIVER	SECTION 3 I BORDEAU MATTHEW WEBER MRS S HASKELL C A & P H G HANSON C G ANDERSON G MORTENSON C CARSON QUIST & LIDBECK G C SMITH MENOMINEE RIVER LITTLE POPPLE RIVER
SECTION 4 QUIST & LIDBECK J LIDBECK L MAURITZ G C SMITH H MELLIS LITTLE POPPLE RIVER M & M PAPER CO A LINDSTROM N. GRYNOLF D. HERBERT C G ANDERSON I SCHNEIDER	SECTION 5 MACY SCRAVANIA M & M PAPER CO L MAURITZ JUDITH ANDERSON A NELSON L VANHOUTE D. HERBERT H NEUENS G LARSON H DeCLARK LITTLE POPPLE RIVER	SECTION 6 G F SANBORN S MARONE JNO. ELMER I SCHNEIDER MRS J BEDORE J LARSON H NEUENS LITTLE POPPLE RIVER SOMONE FROM NEXT MAP WEST
SECTION 7 H FAUCAULD F FRANK P CARKEN GIRARD LBR CO L FRANKOVIC EST. A BIORKMAN A ENGSTROM B F HANSON G MATSON	SECTION 8 E DESTARIS ARCHIE MARTINEAU NELS WINDELL C WINDELL I SCHNEIDER S SCHNEIDER A BIORKMAN J HOSKING C ANDERSON N LUDINGTON CO. J MARSH E? LARSON	SECTION 9 J GINGRASS J NEUENS I SCHNEIDER J QUIST - HOMESTEAD - H CLARK C ANDERSON A ENGSTROM T REGAN S M BIORKQUIST A PETERSON
SECTION 10 - HOMESTEAD - PG HOUING S ANDERSON C PERETSON J GINGRASS O E SACKERSON C O PETERSON J GORANSON	SECTION 11 J GINGRASS E HARVEY T LUKE F LUKE J LINDSTROM	SECTION 12 F BRONLET C. C. E E PETERSON CONRAD AHLSTAND VICTOR BJORKLAND J S McDONALD
SECTION 13 A HEGLUND G LARSON H J PETERSON C HASSEL A BROUILLERN N. L. CO. MRS J BROUILLIER C ERICKSON	SECTION 14 J A JOHNSON G ANDERSON A OLSON V BIORLUND F BODINE A JENSON I KNAPP N LUDINSTON	SECTION 15 A HULTGREN J GORANSON J A JOHNSON ELI VANDELL HEWITT L&M CO. E VONDELL D HIGG J A JOHNSON N LUDINGTON D HEGG A OLSON
SECTION 16 A ENGSTROM G BREDSON L SIOSTROM E HOYER A E ANDERSON H DeCLARK H A WHITE A HULTGREN HALBERG & OSTERBERG D N HANNAS C TREPANIER	SECTION 17 J BURNS L. P. A. L. F SWANSON E LARSON G WALSTROM SCHOOL N ANDERSON JOHANNA ANDERSON C PETERSON J NELSON H MICKELSON O PETERSON	SECTION 18 O. E. C JOHNSON J JOHNSON A LILJO E JOHNSON A ENGSTROM J WEST J RINGBLOOM L ANDERSON G WALSTROM a-bool
SECTION 19 G LILJA etal G OLSON MAX SELLS G TOLLER A SJOQUIST AUG LILYA C RODBERG N LUDINGTON CO.	SECTION 20 C PETERSON SAM ANDERSON A G JOHNSON J LARSON O PETERSON H OLSON N LUDINGTON CO. CHAS BODELINE J NELSON M WEIDNER G WALSTROM J OSTERBERG	SECTION 21 O LINDQUIST RAM & WILL N LUDINGTON CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. H & M CO. S ANDERSON M WEIDNER
SECTION 22 ANLE HANSEN SAWYER GOODMAN CO. N LUDINGTON CO. J MONGRAIN A OLSON J DOBY	SECTION 23 ARTHOR PETERSON A SPIES CO. N LUDINSTON ED. ELMER JOS. GINGEAR ELMER BOURDEAU A PETERSON A S L & C CO. FRED CHURCH CHAS ROOSE H RASSINEAU N LUDINGTON CO.	SECTION 24 -SCHOOL- TOM HOSKINS MRS J BROUILLIER R HOSKING M CHURCH A BROLLIER RICH'D HOSLING G LARSON J PROVENCHER F CHURCH C HASSEL
SECTION 25 N LUDINGTON CO. CHRIST REGONI J WELLS LBR. CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. NL CO. MARGARET WATERS P G LARSON	SECTION 26 N LUDINGTON CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. JOS. PROVENCHER GOUT.	SECTION 27 N LUDINGTON CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. KURZ BROS. G LARSON A PALMQUIST
SECTION 28 N LUDINGTON CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. H TEWS J OSTENBERG T REGAN W ANDERSON I BORDEAU H MICKELSON M WEBER GIRARD LBR. CO.	SECTION 29 N LUDINGTON CO. J OSTERBERG G WALSTROM H TEWS W HOLMES W OSTENBERG G H LARSON SAWYER GOODMAN CO. M WEIDNER	SECTION 30 HAMILTON & MERRYMAN CO. N LUDINGTON CO. W HOLMES A OLSON SAWYER GOODMAN CO. A RUNDQUIST
SECTION 31 A RUNDQUIST BETTY ANDERSON N L CO. HERBERT HOGLUND W HOLMES P CALVI	SECTION 32 SAWYER GOODMAN CO. ELMER & BOURDEAU MRS I GRANT W A WEBSTER A F McGILLES S & G CO.	SECTION 33 SAWYER GOODMAN CO. W A WEBSTER E WALSTROM G LBR CO. J OSTENBERG
SECTION 34 N LUDINGTON CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. P G LARSON E WALSTROM J FENGER J B GOODMAN N L CO.	SECTION 35 N LUDINGTON CO. SAWYER GOODMAN CO. A SPIES LBR & CEDAR CO. S G CO.	SECTION 36 SAWYER GOODMAN CO. N L CO. A SPIES LBR & CEDAR CO. SKIDMORE LAND CO.