Florence Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Goodhue County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 33923 MN 61 Blvd., Florence Township, 55026
When was it listed? July 2000
Category. building
Township. Florence township
National Register reference number. 00000818 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

7,724 words

This property stands in Florence Township. History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota; Together with an Account of the Early French Discoveries, Indian Massacres, the Part Borne by Minnesota's Patriots in the War of the Great Rebellion, and a Full and Complete History of the County from the Time of Its Occupancy by Swiss Missionaries in 1838. Pioneer Incidents, Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men, and of Its Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc, published 1878; Goodhue County, Minnesota, Past and Present, published 1893; History of Goodhue County, Minnesota, published 1909 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Florence Township - 7,724 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Florence Town Hall between 1992 and 2019, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	0LF1811
3 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2018	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	0LF1811
24 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2004	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 1998	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Goodhue County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Florence Town Hall: 7 occurrences, 5 past producers, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Goodhue County Sand Deposit No 2	Silica	Occurrence
Maiden Rock Mine	Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand	Producer	1920
Kassac Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Maiden Rock Limestone Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Maiden Rock Limestone Quarry #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Maiden Rock Limestone Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pine Creek Limestone Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Skunk Hollow Limestone Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Stockholm Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Frontenac Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Goodhue County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Old Frontenac Historic District	1.4 miles	1973
Bridge No. 12	4.8 miles	1989
E. J. Fryk Barn	5.2 miles	1980
Dammon Round Barn	5.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000818 in Record Group 79.
Goodhue County	All 60 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.