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THE DIG'S FRAME · NOVEMBER 2026
The banked fragment carried the big grounds whole and gathered the middle rank at line size — some twenty-five plats named with a parcel count and, at most, a clause. This addendum is that register dug: every plat the register names at thirty parcels or more gets its own article below, in the register's own order of size, and the plats of the 2000s-additions article that belong to the same class (Wild Wing Plantation, Horizons Edge, Anderson Estates) are dug with them. What the county parcel file proves directly, plat by plat, is printed as this section's: the sections and additions a plat ran to, the ground it sits on (its legal descriptions' section lines and its parcels' centroid), the size of its lots, and its present state in the county's class codes — how many of its parcels still stand vacant-classed (500) against how many carry a house (510). What the file cannot prove is also printed, per plat, as a named gap: the proprietor who signed the plat and the day the Recorder took it, which live in the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books and nowhere on the open web for most of this rank. Where the open web does name a hand — a builder's community page, an association's own founding date, a proprietor's name carried inside the county's own legal strings, a new-plat instrument date — the article prints it at exactly that strength and says what kind of record it is.
One character fact runs through the whole rank and is worth stating once: these are not small-lot production plats. The median parcel across the register runs from about a third of an acre to nearly two-thirds, the plats are almost uniformly single-family in the county's codes, and almost none of them is finished changing — additions, sections, replats and minor subdivisions trail off the main plats in the legal strings of nearly every article below. The Harris wave, at this rank, was a thirty-year process, not a building season.