The in-town test, at depth: no congregation inside the town

The six sweeps of November 2026 described below — the University of Notre Dame's Places of Worship list and the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's county church-records table each read whole; the Brethren district and directory lists; the diocesan listing; direct street-name searches

Notre Dame's Places of Worship list — 63 entries across every denominational class, read whole — carries the northern-Clay ring (Clay United Methodist, Prince of Peace Church of the Brethren, Community Congregational, Northway Church of Christ, Christ the King Lutheran, and others, each on its own ground outside the town) and no entry at any town street or named for Indian Village. The genealogical society's county church-records table, read whole, files churches by place — South Bend, Mishawaka, Osceola, Walkerton, North Liberty, Granger, Lakeville, New Carlisle and the smaller places — and carries no Indian Village entry, no Roseland entry, and no Ulery, Ullery or St. Joseph Valley entry at all; its own headnote warns it should not be the only source, so its silence corroborates rather than stands alone. The Brethren district list and web directory name exactly two South Bend congregations, both on their own ground (below). The diocesan listing names Christ the King Parish for the corridor and no parish at a town address. Direct searches on the town's seven street names returned no congregation on any of them. The denominational map locators that a text pass cannot execute are recorded as unexecuted runs in the pass note, with their parameters; no negative is taken from them. The historical limb holds with the present-day one: no carrier reached places any congregation inside the present town bounds in any era — the township church of 1868 stands under the range caution of conflict C9, and the town's own section carries, in Chapman, only the settler cemetery "near" that church.