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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 of $39,380 raised with no property-tax levy at all, fire protection from the Clay Fire Territory it helped found in 2001 — and, from 2027, from the merged Clay and Penn territory it voted to create in March 2026, a transition the government fragment records whole. One reference carrier styles it "St. Joseph County's smallest incorporated municipality," which the frame figures bear out on both measures, area and population.
The sources this frame rests on, named so the next passes can test them: the 2020 Census gazetteer and the Census Bureau's printed counts and place layers; the State Board of AccountsDepartment of Local Government Finance budget orders, which carry the town unit's certified figures at full strength; the county's own town page and its Clerk's election summaries; the county histories, Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), for the township frame and the village test; and the treaty texts read first-hand for the land and tribes fragments. No National Register listing or archaeological site file inside the town was reached; the State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database sweep is named as the settler rather than a negative asserted.