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HARRIS TOWNSHIP · SECTIONS 7 AND 8, T38N R4E · 80 PARCELS
Only one plat family in either township carries the community's own name in the possessive — Granger's Oak Ridge, in the big-families article — but New Granger Trails carries it plain, and it sits where the banked register put it: on the range-line sections at the Osceola doorstep, its legal descriptions running to the southeast quarter of Section 7 and the southwest of Section 8 in the next range east (T38N R4E), the ground where Harris Township's survey gives way to the Elkhart County line's townships. It is a planned plat of the modern kind, and the file shows the planning in its parcel mix: alongside its eighty name-carrying parcels the county file carries its retention areas and drainageways as parcels of their own — "Retention Area & Drainageways, New Granger Trails" — stormwater ground platted into the subdivision rather than left to chance, the signature of a post-1990 Area Plan Commission plat rather than a farm-family cut.
Its lots proper run at a median of 0.39 acre; the family's total acreage, some 53 acres, is swelled by the drainage ground and a small number of large out-parcels. Its present state is near-complete: seventy-nine of the eighty parcels improved in the single-family code, one vacant-classed. No builder, proprietor or recording date for the plat is reachable on the open web — no association page, no builder directory entry, no instrument date inside its legal strings beyond the section lines themselves. Named gap — New Granger Trails' proprietor and recording date: 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 — count, section lines, retention and drainageway parcels, acreages, class codes; banked register article for the range-line reading.