WELCOME TO FLORENCE, WISCONSIN 1925 PLAT MAPS

TOWNSHIP 38 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 AUG OLSON R LARSON C JOHNSON J C A PEARSON J LARSON J A JOHNSON C KRANS S MOYTI	SECTION 2 J LARSON J GRIMORD A O G E C A FRIBERG G JOHNSON A BERG F JOHNSON C HUTTGREN CHAS FRIBERG C HAGBERG	SECTION 3 CHAS FRIBERG J GRIMOY E GIMORD D W LYNCH A ANDERSON E OLSON T JOHNSON A KNUTSON O JOHNSON P RIENDELL
SECTION 4 G B JONES J N FAITHORN N ANDERSON J B GOODMAN N L CO GIRARD LUMBER CO C BROWN H BROWN	SECTION 5 LUDINGTON WELLS & US CO T J KAVANAUGH N LUDINGTON CO J B GOODMAN	SECTION 6 T J KAVANAUGH N LUDINGTON CO J N FAITHORN J B GOODMAN CO W E FAITHORN
SECTION 7 F RIENDELL C H JONES J B GOODMAN G BEYER & SMITH N LUDINGTON CO	SECTION 8 N LUDINGTON CO MARIA WESTMAN J B GOODMAN G BEYER HOMESTEAD SAWYER GOODMAN CO	SECTION 9 N LUDINGTON CO C BROWN H BROWN J B GOODMAN GIRARD LUMBER CO G BEYER H L & M CO
SECTION 10 GIRARD LUMBER CO C NELSON N P SWANSON A KNUTSON O KNUTSON CHAS JOHNSON A OLSON C & G SWANSON T J KAVANAUGH A F JOHNSON C E CARLSON A EKLIN	SECTION 11 A OLSON C HUTTGREN T MILD SCHOOL A KJELL C SJOQUIST V BERGQUIST R & E BERGQUIST A CARLSON A E JOHNSON J SJOQUIST A S F B A JOHNSON C L ANDERSON C E CARLSON C LUNDBERG	SECTION 12 T MILD E PETERSON J L CARLSON A KJELL GIRARD LUMBER CO A ANDERSON JNO ELMER
SECTION 13 LITTLE POPPLE RIVER A ANDERSON JNO ELMER J B GOODMAN GIRARD LUMBER CO C HOULTIER LOUISA WALSTROM C W LIND	SECTION 14 CEMETERY CHURCH G HOLMBERG S PETERSON J A CARLSON C S N LUDINGTON CO GIRARD CO F WARING A ANDERSON R & E BERGQUIST	SECTION 15 T J KAVANAUGH C LUNDBERG R & E HILQUIST G HOLMBERG N LUDINGTON CO P McGOVERN PEARSON & BERQUIST
SECTION 16 N LUDINGTON CO J B GOODMAN	SECTION 17 J B GOODMAN GOVERNMENT P CALVI N LUDINGTON CO	SECTION 18 J B GOODMAN G BEYER N LUDINGTON CO G F LANBORN J LEAVI N W STRATFORD ESTATE
SECTION 19 J B GOODMAN N LUDINGTON CO	SECTION 20 J B GOODMAN N LUDINGTON CO S & G	SECTION 21 J B GOODMAN N LUDINGTON CO
SECTION 22 J B GOODMAN N LUDINGTON CO LITTLE POPPLE RIVER	SECTION 23 N LUDINGTON CO GIRARD LUMBER CO HUGO SANDBERG T O'BRIEN ESTATE N A HOGLUND A SANDBERG C PETERSON	SECTION 24 A HELLMAN BERYER & SMITH G ELLISON IDA JOHNSON N A HOGLUND A BENOSTRONG CHAS RINGQUIST CHAS HORD A SWANSON A HOAGLUND
SECTION 25 N LUDINGTON CO E W HOLM GEO OLSON N J OLSON E BRYRGELSON A HELLMAN GIRARD LUMBER CO F BREMBERG J HELLMAN	SECTION 26 T W O'BRIEN GIRARD LUMBER CO O ANDERSON J F JOHNSON V LIND	SECTION 27 N LUDINGTON CO T W O'BRIEN J B GOODMAN GIRARD LUMBER CO
SECTION 28 MARIA WESTMAN GOVERNMENT N LUDINGTON CO GIRARD LUMBER CO J B GOODMAN	SECTION 29 J B GOODMAN A BERG N LUDINGTON CO	SECTION 30 J B GOODMAN N LUDINGTON CO
SECTION 31 J B GOODMAN H & M CO N LUDINGTON CO MEN R LUMBER CO HAMILTON & MERRYMAN CO	SECTION 32 HAMILTON & MERRYMAN CO SLAVIA LAND CO GIRARD LUMBER CO	SECTION 33 ? KLENHA SLAVIA LAND CO N LUDINGTON CO
SECTION 34 N LUDINGTON CO GIRARD LUMBER CO HAMILTON & MERRYMAN CO J B GOODMAN H & M CO T W O'BRIEN E BRYRGELSON	SECTION 35 A BRYNGELSON A LINDQUIST VICTOR LINDQUIST N L CO GIRARD LUMBER CO U LINA J FREDRICKSON T W O'BRIEN	SECTION 36 GIRARD LUMBER CO N LUDINGTON CO H K & J G KASS F HORD C JOHNSON C HORD J B GOODMAN VICTOR LINDQUIST H & M CO W HOLMES