The county in numbers, at pointer

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture, County Profile for St. Joseph County, Indiana (official published profile); Indiana State Department of Agriculture, Inventory of Lost Farmland 2010–2022, as summarised by the South Bend Regional Chamber (September 2024); the pair printed whole below

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 farms, an average of 280 acres; of the land in farms, 141,832 acres are cropland, 1,262 pastureland and 4,290 woodland, and 24,052 acres (16 percent) are irrigated. The township that holds the town has no separate dated line in the carriers reached — the county frame is the finest the published record gives, and it prints as a pointer, the county's full farm history standing in the South Bend build. The conversion the section itself underwent is measured at the same county frame: the State Department of Agriculture's inventory, as the regional chamber summarises it, counts the county losing 11,485 agricultural acres between 2010 and 2022, 9,673 of them to residential use (a second summary of the same inventory prints "nearly 8,000 acres" — the two figures stand unmerged in the pass note as conflict C20; neither is a township figure). Section 25's own conversion — farm to seven residential streets — happened two generations before that inventory opens and is counted in none of its tables; it prints here as the same process at an earlier date, on the record of the ground itself.