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HARRIS TOWNSHIP · SECTION 22, T38N R3E · 103 PARCELS ACROSS ITS ADDITIONS
Dawn Manor is the biggest plat the register gathered, and it is the one whose paper trail begins inside the county file itself. Its legal descriptions run through at least ten numbered additions — First through Tenth, the later ones arriving as minor subdivisions — on the Section 22 ground in the township's western tier (centroid −86.1645, 41.7336), and two of those strings carry a name no other plat in this rank carries: "Otto E. Ringens Dawn Manor 3rd" and "Otto V. Ringens Plat of Dawn Manor 2nd" (the county's own spelling varies between the strings). A proprietor's name embedded in the plat's own filed style is the strongest founding evidence this section found anywhere in the register: Dawn Manor was, at least in its second and third additions, one man's plat, laid out under his own name the way the farm plats of the older stratum were. Whether Ringens signed the first addition, and in what years the ten additions were recorded, the legal strings do not say. Named gap — Dawn Manor's recording dates, addition by addition: settler, the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books (Harris Township books), GAP-NBH-5's settler named for this plat.
The plan the additions built is a long, sectioned ground rather than a single grid: this section's Dawn Manor parcels total some 49 acres at a median lot of 0.43 acre, the additions accreting lot ranges in the eighties and beyond as the plat climbed its numbering. Its present state is the register's most finished after Northfield Village: of the parcels carrying the name, all but one stand improved in the single-family code, a single vacant-classed parcel remaining — and yet the paper is still moving, the file carrying a 2008 minor-subdivision replat (instrument RP6807, 14 October 2008) cutting lots 27A and 31A out of the older fabric. A plat that began as a named man's additions is, a generation later, still being re-cut at its edges.
Sources: St. Joseph County parcel record, read November 2026 — the addition sequence, the Ringens strings, the section line, acreages, class codes and the RP6807 replat as the legal descriptions carry them; banked count of 103 parcels per Neighborhoods, the Harris register article.