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Register row L23-#4 · closes as a NAMED GAP (no street-level geography exists in open sources)
The threads at count size, printed whole: the ACS 2020–2024 release, as Population carries it, counts the smaller threads of the designated place as follows — Polish 2,096; Italian 1,665; Hungarian 486; Belgian 389; Arab 301, of whom 236 Lebanese. They are survey estimates with margins, printed as the build prints them everywhere, and they are real: together these five threads alone account for some five thousand of the place's thirty thousand residents, a sixth of Granger, present in the count and absent from every institution and street the record names. The foreign-born frame around them stands in Population: 2,419 foreign-born residents (8.0 percent), 1,458 of them naturalized, Asia the largest region of birth at 1,336 ahead of Europe at 394 — the newest threads are Asian first, and the five European and Arab threads counted here are largely the descendants of arrivals, not arrivals themselves.
The one street-level trace the record gives: a single Polish surname stands fixed to the map in the plat record reached — Roszalka Court, in Pleasant Valley North at the CDP's eastern edge (the listing record carries 10203 Roszalka Ct among that plat's houses) — a developer-era street name, not evidence of a Polish street or quarter, and printed at exactly that size. It is the only thread-name the map holds. No Hungarian street, no Italian parish or club, no Belgian quarter and no Arab institution appears in any source reached: Churches & Religion's tested negatives dispose of the parish form for each (the county's Polish, Hungarian and other ethnic parishes are the cities'), and no society, store or club of any of the five threads is named for this ground in the press or directory record swept.
The Belgian thread's boundary, stated plainly: the checklist's boundary-honesty pattern belongs to this entry. The county's Belgian community is Mishawaka's — its concentration, its institutions and its course belong to Mishawaka's build — and Granger's 389 Belgian-ancestry residents are printed here as a count on this ground, not as a share of that community. The same discipline holds for the Polish thread against South Bend's Polish west side: counted here, institutionally there, and the two facts never merged.
The gap and its settler: street-by-street geography for any of the five threads — which plats, which streets, at what density — cannot be drawn from open sources: the ACS publishes ancestry at place level for the CDP, and the tract and block-group tables that could localize it, read with the South Bend city directories' township listings and the congregations' records, are the settler the register names. The threads close as a named gap at street size, with their counts dug whole above.
Sources:
- Population (banked), from the U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year release — Polish 2,096; Italian 1,665; Hungarian 486; Belgian 389; Arab 301 (236 Lebanese); foreign-born 2,419 (8.0%), 1,458 naturalized; Asia 1,336 and Europe 394 by region of birth.
- Churches & Religion (banked) — the ethnic-parish negatives and the boundary assignment of the county's ethnic parish systems to South Bend and Mishawaka.
- IRMLS listing record for Pleasant Valley North — 10203 Roszalka Ct, Granger, the one thread surname in the plat record reached.
- Settler named: ACS ancestry by tract/block group; South Bend city directories (township listings); congregation and parish records.