Florence, Wisconsin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

• Fern Schoollisted 1981
• Florence County Courthouse and Jaillisted 1985
• Florence Town Halllisted 2014
• David M. and Lottie Fulmer Houselisted 2014
• Robert B. and Estelle J. Webb Houselisted 2014

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1941 USGS Florence quadrangle1:48000
• 1947 USGS Stager quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Florence between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ridgetop
• Commonwealth
• Tyran
• Hematite
• Spread Eagle

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Florence: 10 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Florence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Florence County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1565079. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.