Glen Lees: a plat in two additions and a possessive

HARRIS TOWNSHIP · SECTION 16, T38N R4E · 52 PARCELS PER THE BANKED COUNT

Glen Lees was built in a Second Addition before it finished its first: so the county file's strings run — "Glen Lees Second Add Part One" and "Part Two" carrying the family's bulk, a base plat under the plain name, and a possessive form, "Glen Lee's," carrying sixteen parcels of its own, apostrophe and all, on Section 16 ground in the range-east tier (centroid −86.0674, 41.7416). The name is a person's — Glen Lee, in the possessive, the farm-plat habit of the older stratum surviving into the wave — and the two-part second addition says the first ground sold well enough to extend twice. The banked register counted the family at 52 parcels across its additions; this section's recount of every name-carrying string in the same file totals more, and the discrepancy is flagged loudly in the closures file and not resolved here, the banked count standing in this article as the file of record. At a median lot of 0.42 acre, with four parcels still vacant-classed and one carried in a non-single-family residential code, Glen Lees reads as a substantially built plat with a ragged, still-settling edge — the possessive parcels and the second addition's parts never quite filing into one clean count.

No proprietor beyond the name itself, and no recording date, is reachable on the open web; whether Glen Lee the man was the subdivider, this section's strings suggest but do not state. Named gap — Glen Lees' proprietor of record and recording dates: 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 — the addition and possessive strings, the section line, acreages, class codes; banked count of 52 per Neighborhoods, the Harris register article; recount discrepancy flagged in c11-closures.md.