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HARRIS TOWNSHIP · THE NORTHERN TIER · 46 PARCELS UNDER THE MAIN STRING
Park Forest's legal strings tell a story none of its neighbors' tell at this length: halves of lots, lots consolidated at the assessor's hand ("cons w/… per assessor's req, IC 6-1.1-5-16"), parts sold off to adjoining lots, a Park Forest East trailing the main name. This is the paper of a mature plat in its second life — the original lot fabric being quietly redrawn by its owners, two lots becoming one house's ground, half-lots passing between neighbors — on the northern-tier ground (centroid −86.0844, 41.7588) among the Cherry Road band. The banked count is 46 under the main string, at a median lot of 0.38 acre over some 18 acres; forty-two parcels stand in the single-family code, with two still vacant-classed and the remainder in the mixed codes a re-cut plat accumulates. A plat does not acquire this kind of paper young: the consolidations are the mark of decades of settled ownership, and they make Park Forest, on this section's evidence, one of the older souls of the northern tier — though its recording date, like Reynolds Park's, is exactly what the parcel file cannot give.
Named gap — Park Forest's 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, the consolidation and lot-split strings as filed, acreages, class codes; banked count of 46 per Neighborhoods, the Harris register article.