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The frame
2020 Census gazetteer row (the named frame); Census TIGERweb place layer
Indian Village is an incorporated town in Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. In the federal frame it is GNIS feature 2397006 , FIPS place code 18-36306 (GEOID 1836306), legal/statistical area description 43 (town)…
The township frame — Clay Township
Chapman (1880), the township chapters; Howard (1907), Chapter VIII
Clay Township was formed 5 May 1840 , named for Henry Clay — Chapman: "at the June session of the Board of County Commissioners in 1840, an order was passed constituting Clay a separate township, and it was named after Henry…
The incorporation — a recorded gap, with its floors
State Board of Accounts examinations; Census Bureau, CPH-2-16; Clay Fire Territory record
No carrier reached states when Indian Village was incorporated, or by what instrument That is the finding, and it stands as a named gap whose settlers — the county commissioners' order books, the History Museum's archives, and…
The name — an unexplained modern name
The name invites an assumption, and the record does not support one. No carrier of record strength found says why this town is called Indian Village — no plat note, no local-history explanation, no marker text. The name therefore…
The census line
Decennial census returns, instruments labelled; Census Bureau, CPH-2-16, Table 8
The decennial series , with each return's instrument stated and nothing merged: 142 in 1990; 144 in 2000; 133 in 2010 — all three read from the Census Bureau's printed 2010 counts volume — and 118 in 2020 from the PL 94-171…
Boundaries and neighbours — the town touches nothing
The town's polygon , from the federal place layer, is a single near-rectangle, long axis east–west: longitude −86.235776 to −86.228715 (about 0.36 miles wide), latitude 41.712451 to 41.716112 (about 0.25 miles tall), its four…
The modern town, and its sources
At November 2026 the town stands as the record carries it: some sixty-three houses on seven small streets, a three-member town council and a clerk-treasurer meeting monthly at the clerk-treasurer's home, a certified town budget…