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HARRIS TOWNSHIP · THE NORTHERN TIER · 74 PARCELS ACROSS ITS SECTIONS
Cherry Trails Estates climbed Cherry Road in five sections — First through Fifth in its legal descriptions, with a minor subdivision trailing — on the township's northern tier (centroid −86.1277, 41.7553), in the band of plats that filled the ground between the Michigan line and the older farm roads. The county file carries it under two spellings of its own name, Cherry Trail Estates and Cherry Trails Estates, section by section, the same filed-variant habit the banked fragment noted at family level for Knollwood and Greenview; the sections as the file counts them run largest in the Second (21 parcels across the spellings) and Fourth (14), with the Fifth at 15 — a plat whose later sections held their size rather than dwindling. Its lots run at a median of 0.38 acre, some 31 acres in all; the banked register named Sturdy Oak Lane among its streets, an interior name of the wave's woodland vocabulary laid over what the plat's own name says was cherry ground — orchard or road, the name descends from Cherry Road itself.
Its present state is finished in substance: the parcels carrying the name stand improved in the single-family code but for one parcel classed in the exempt range (Lot 68 of the Fifth Section), the common or association ground, most likely, of the last section. No builder or proprietor for Cherry Trails is reachable on the open web, and no instrument date rides in its legal strings. Named gap — Cherry Trails Estates' proprietor and the recording dates of its five sections: settler, the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books (Harris Township books), GAP-NBH-5's settler named for this plat.
Sources: St. Joseph County parcel record, read November 2026 — section counts under both spellings, acreages, class codes; banked count of 74 and the Sturdy Oak Lane street name per Neighborhoods, the Harris register article.