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The standard atlas was a Chicago product sold farm to farm. Geo. A. Ogle & Co.'s Standard Atlas of Allen County, Indiana (Chicago, 1898; copyrighted 1897) is the full form: a plat book of the villages, cities, and townships of the county, a patrons' directory and reference business directory, a map of the state, and Fort Wayne itself in six part-sheets with an outline street-and-ward map. A farm family bought its township page and found its own acres, roads, school, and church drawn to scale. The Indiana State Library holds the 1898 original and the 1973 Unigraphic reprint; the Internet Archive's digitized copy was scanned with Genealogy Center funding.
The local trade answered in 1907: the Plat Book of Allen County, Indiana, published in Fort Wayne by the Allen County Map Co., forty-five pages of township and village plats. The Library of Congress holds a copy — the library's cataloging notes the LC copy is imperfect, marked by liquid staining — and the book is in the public domain. It is not to be confused with C. Ross Lindemuth's Plat Book of Allen County, a separate Fort Wayne publication of about 1920 (a 1925 edition is also listed), digitized at the Internet Archive. Behind these named books runs a long plat-book line that the Genealogy Center's own list traces from 1855 to the present: W. W. Hixson & Co. of Rockford in the 1920s, the Sidwell Studio of Lombard, Illinois (editions spanning about 1925–1941, and its Atlas of Allen County of 1944), Rockford Map Publishers' Tri-Annual Atlas & Plat Book of 1965, and county plat books of 1974 and 2004.
Every atlas in this line is, sheet by sheet, a set of township maps — the township maps exist, complete and largely digitized, even though this history has not written the county's twenty township histories
Sources: Internet Archive item standardatlasofa00geoa (Ogle, Standard Atlas of Allen County, 1898); Indiana State Library, Allen County Maps page, call numbers IR912.772 A425o (1898) and IR912.772 A425o 1973 (reprint); Library of Congress cataloging for Plat Book of Allen County, Indiana (Allen County Map Co., 1907), via Picryl; Internet Archive item platbookofallen00lind (Lindemuth, ca. 1920); Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Allen County plat books list (Hixson, Sidwell, 1944 atlas, 1965 Tri-Annual, 1974 and 2004 plat books).