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The carriers that do not exist at web strength: directories, gazetteers, a plat

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Searches run, stated at the strength reached; the Denham finding aid opened and searched in full as fetched.

For a place of this size, the silences are themselves the record. No Polk or South Bend city-directory listing for the town was found — no suburb entry, no population figure, no see-reference. No Indiana gazetteer reached contains it. No plat named Indian Village for St. Joseph County was found in web-visible recorder, plan-commission or GIS material, and no document found names the plat that laid out the town's seven streets; that the seven names (Maplehurst, Elmhurst, Pinehurst, Palmer, Lamar, Sumpter, Welworth) read as a single plat's naming pattern remains an inference from the names themselves, labelled as such. The Jeanne Denham Collection — eighty-one boxes of county clippings and neighbourhood files at The History Museum — has an online finding aid that was searched in full as fetched: there is no Indian Village entry in it. No St. Joseph County Public Library or Michiana Memory item naming the town or its plat was found. And the frame pass's Wikipedia settler (G-FR-5) was run again exactly as specified — a search for "Indian Village, Indiana" returned no Wikipedia URL for this town, only the Noble County article; the URL was not constructed. A mirror of the standard town description carries the population and coordinates and nothing about the name's origin or the town's founding.

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Source: The carriers that do not exist at web strength: directories, gazetteers, a plat, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/indian-village/name-course/carriers-that-do-not-exist-at-web-strength-directories/