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Farms — a Century of Farmland, and No Farm Remnant
The leg's verdict, stated first
The searches of November 2026 described in the pass note; the county frame from the USDA 2022 Census of Agriculture county profile for St.…
The town's ground was farmed for a century and carries no farm today — and between those two facts, the record names almost nothing. One farm household is named on the section in all the carriers read: the Eatons, on a lease, in…
The one named farm: the Eatons' leasehold, 1831–1836
Howard (1907), Vol. 2, p. 1070, and Chapman (1880), pp. 679–680 — read whole in Pass IV-2 and carried here at the strength there…
The section's farm course opens with a family that did not own the ground it farmed. Jacob Eaton's parents came to Clay Township in 1831 and "first located on the present site of St. Mary's Academy, on sections 25 and 26, living…
The unnamed farm century: no farm named on the ground after 1836
The searches of November 2026 described in the pass note (the section, the town and the township's farm record run at web strength)…
For the hundred years after the Eatons removed, the section was farmland that print never remarked. The pass searched the section and the town's ground directly — the section by its number, the ground by its later name, the…
The county in numbers, at pointer
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture, County Profile for St. Joseph County, Indiana (official…
The county the section farmed in is still, by acreage, half a farm county — and it is losing ground to houses like this town's. The 2022 Census of Agriculture counts St. Joseph County at 547 farms on 153,034 acres of land in…
The present remnant test: no agricultural use inside the bounds
American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimates for the town (place 1836306), Missouri Census Data Center profile rendering, read…
No part of the town is farmed today, at every strength the record reaches. The federal survey's current rendering for the town counts its 45 employed residents with none in a farming, fishing or forestry occupation and none in…