The branch row's verdict: what a plat-by-plat pass can and cannot close from open sources

BR-NBH-#2 · closes as a NAMED GAP, with the dug stratum printed whole above

every plat the banked register gathered at line size now stands under its own name with its county-file count, its ground where the file gives it, and everything the open listing, assessor and press record adds — two plats re-dated and characterized whole from their houses and paper (Dawn Manor to the 1960s–1970s, against its register placement; Pleasant Valley North to a 2003 replat and a building course still running), one plat's sectioning confirmed in a current public instrument (Cherry Trails Estates 3rd), two cross-carried counts verified consistent (Country Knolls, Streamwood), one single-house building year recovered (Glen Lees, 1971), and one same-name trap disarmed (Anderson Lake Estates against Anderson Estates). The register's concession — "the Recorder's plat books would date each" — is now an itemized, plat-by-plat gap rather than a collective one.

What it cannot close, and why the row's kind is a gap: the floor's full shape for a substantial plat — founding plat instrument, builder/subdivider, street plan, character, present state — requires the proprietor and recording date, and for twenty-three of these twenty-five plats those facts exist in exactly one place: the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books, which are not published on the open web and were not reachable by this run (the banked file's GAP-NBH-1/4/5 name the same settler). No amount of open-web digging substitutes for the plat book's title block, and inflating line-size plats into article-size entries without it would fabricate the builder and date lines the floor asks for. The row therefore closes as a named gap — settler: the Recorder's plat books, read plat by plat for the twenty-five names entered above, with the Area Plan Commission's plat-committee files behind them for the plats of the approval era — with the dug stratum printed whole above it, at each plat's true size, with the test shown.

Sources:

1. Neighborhoods (banked) — "The Harris Township waves II: the register of the rest" and "The 2000s additions," with this section's apparatus (GAP-NBH-1/4/5) naming the Recorder's plat books as settler.
2. The searches and records of this section as cited article by article above (county parcel file; county assessor record; IRMLS listing record; county tax-sale advertisement), read November 2026.
3. Settler named: St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books; Area Plan Commission plat-committee files.