WELCOME TO FLORENCE, WISCONSIN 1925 PLAT MAPS

TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH - 17 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 BRULE LAND CO E E KEYES M M D A F SANBORN CO S G CO LOON LAKE	SECTION 2 MRS T DIXON J A BARNER GRASS LAKE M COSGROVE SAWYER GOODMAN CO SEA LION LAKE	SECTION 3 PFISTER LAND CO J A BARNES SAWYER GOODMAN CO
SECTION 4 MARY SUELFLOHN SAWYER GOODMAN CO	SECTION 5 SAWYER GOODMAN CO C & N W RAILWAY CO	SECTION 6 PATTEN PAPER CO McGOVERN LUMBER CO SAWYER GOODMAN CO M SELLS
SECTION 7 PATTEN PAPER CO C & N W RAILWAY CO	SECTION 8 SAWYER GOODMAN CO PATTEN PAPER CO	SECTION 9 SAWYER GOODMAN CO
SECTION 10 SAWYER GOODMAN CO VON PLATEN CO H W SEIDEL W J HAY	SECTION 11 M COSGROVE C MEYERS J A CAMPBELL T J K BEYER & SMITH SEA LION LAKE	SECTION 12 SEA LION LAKE F SANBORN LOTTIE JOHNSON ?? JOHNSON
SECTION 13 ?? JOHNSON W W NOYES OLIVER MINING CO & E N BREITUNG COMMONWEALTH IRON CO E J KINGDON	SECTION 14 SAWYER GOODMAN CO H R SEIDEL F J STOPPER PFISTER LAND CO W W NOYES J A BARNES	SECTION 15 H R SEIDEL T J KAVANAUGH F MILLER J HATTES F S AUSTIN
SECTION 16 VON PLATEN CO	SECTION 17 FRANK ROBERGO SAWYER GOODMAN CO PRICE LAKE	SECTION 18 LAKE PATTON SAWYER GOODMAN CO
SECTION 19 LAKE PATTON F X PARENT C KASTER P R P E J PARENT P R PARENT C NOYES GIRARD LUMBER CO	SECTION 20 F X PARENT F ROBAGO E J PARENT F STERNHAGEN C PARENT F MILLER W W MITCHELL ESTATE	SECTION 21 W W MITCHELL ESTATE
SECTION 22 PINE RIVER SCHOOL GIRARD LUMBER CO I M ATKINS W E __AFF	SECTION 23 GIRARD LUMBER CO W E __AFF McGOVERN LUMBER CO M SELLS ? R KOLAR H L & M CO ET AL PINE RIVER	SECTION 24 CHAS POETSCH F J C I M ATKINS G LUMBER CO PFISTER LAND CO
SECTION 25 PINE RIVER T J KAVANAUGH PATTEN P CO M M SCHOLTZ HEWITT L & M CO L W & U S CO GIRARD LUMBER CO	SECTION 26 PINE RIVER LUDINGTON, WELLS & U S CO T J KAVANAUGH GIRARD LUMBER CO	SECTION 27 POPPLE RIVER T J KAVANAUGH
SECTION 28 POPPLE RIVER T J KAVANAUGH WOODS CREEK GIRARD LUMBER CO F MILLER NAST. BROS.	SECTION 29 F WITTE H STERNHAGEN GIRARD LUMBER CO FIN & SWEED CO H JACOBSON	SECTION 30 F X PARENT GIRARD LUMBER CO
SECTION 31 J A BARNES C & N W RAILWAY CO E J NICHOLS	SECTION 32 VINCENT NICHOLS GIRARD LUMBER CO NIELS ALBINUSSEN D RODIGBIERO P N WASHBURN C STERNHAGEN	SECTION 33 H I WASHBURN T J KAVANAUGH FRANK MILLER GIRARD LUMBER CO C NELSON
SECTION 34 T J KAVANAUGH LUDINGTON, WELLS & U S CO	SECTION 35 LUDINGTON, WELLS & U S CO GIRARD LUMBER CO McGOVERN LAND CO M FIELD T J KAVANAUGH	SECTION 36 T J KAVANAUGH LUDINGTON, WELLS & U S CO J B GOODMAN CO