The Clay side, and the county system around the line

BOUNDARY · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026

Clay Township's quarter of the designated place has no park in it, and the test is printed because the frame invites the question: Clay's trustee keeps a fire territory, an assistance office, and one named cemetery — the Government leg's record of the township's published course names no park, no park ground, and no park duty, and no county park parcel stands inside the place's Clay quarter in the record reached. The place's park system is Harris-sided entire: the trustee's pair, the paths, and the county's Anderson Road ground all stand in Harris Township. What Clay Township holds of the county system stands west of the place's line: St. Patrick's County Park, at 50651 Laurel Road, the parks department's own seat — a Clay Township ground, but South Bend's neighbor, not Granger's; the trustee's geography of it, "closer to Michigan than they are to you," is rhetoric about the drive, and the line is stated plainly here: the park is outside the designated place, and its course belongs to the county system's own record.

The county's other seats ring the place at the same boundary size. Ferrettie-Baugo Creek County Park stands at Osceola, east beyond the line. Bendix Woods County Park stands at New Carlisle, at the county's western end — and carries with it the county park system's signature festival, which this section prints because the brief assigns it to the park that hosts it wherever it sits: Sugar Camp Days, St. Joseph County Parks' end-of-winter maple festival at Bendix Woods (56960 Timothy Road), where sap is cooked into syrup in the park's sugar house, the sugar bush is toured, and pioneer and Native methods are demonstrated; the state events record bills the March 14–15, 2026 running as the 53rd annual. It is a Bendix Woods institution on Olive Township ground, a long drive west of this place in the trustee's own accounting, and it is entered here at boundary size and no more. The place's remaining green is private or pointed: the school grounds, whose playgrounds the trustee himself counts as the informal supply "when they are not otherwise in use," belong to the Schools section; the two golf grounds and the country club belong to Sports and Businesses; the plats' commons and lakes belong to Neighborhoods.

Sources:

1. The Government leg of this build — Clay Township's published course (fire territory, assistance, Stuckey Cemetery) and the absence of any park in it; Harris Township's park course for contrast.
2. St. Joseph County Parks (sjcparks.org) — St. Patrick's County Park, 50651 Laurel Road, the department's seat; the county system's park list.
3. Indiana state events record (events.in.gov) and the Indiana Bicentennial legacy project record (in.gov) — Sugar Camp Days at Bendix Woods County Park, New Carlisle: the sugar house and sugar bush, the demonstrations; the 2026 running billed as the 53rd annual, March 14–15, 2026.
4. Granger Gazette, August 2022 (Lindsay) — the three county parks as this ground's options, and the school grounds' informal place in the supply.