Indian Village, Indiana
Timeline
21 dated events, in order. Each gives the passage that dates it and a link to its full account.
19th century 6 dated mentions
1820s
- 1821The calls check — the one joint the text leaves open
The western limb is the joint: the 1821 polygon's western side in this longitude band is its first call, a segment "running thence south" from "a point on the south bank of the river St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, near the Parc aux Vaches, due north from Rum's Village" — and the treaty gives that point no longitude, bearing or monument.
- 1821The reserve test on this ground
The 1821 treaty's own Article 2 reserves five village tracts from the cession — at Mang-ach-qua Village, at Mick-ke-saw-be, at the village of Na-to-wa-se-pe, at the village of Prairie Ronde, and at Match-e-be-nash-she-wish at the head of the Kalamazoo River — and the text locates every one by a Michigan place-name…
1850s
- 1854Edwin Douglass Eaton — born in the township, 1854
Edwin Douglass Eaton , grandson of Isaac and son of Jacob, "was born in this township on the 28th of March, 1854," and is printed "a representative of one of its oldest and most prominent families."
1880s
- 1880The northern and eastern farm tier — Chalfant, Chirhart, Jennings, Kotz, Stover, Sossomen
Thomas B. Chalfant (§31): came with his parents 1 November 1832 "and settled on the farm on which he still resides" in 1880; township trustee; 236 acres.
- 1880The first school figures — Charles Murray, Daniel A. Veasey, Thomas Eaton
Of the school trustees Chapman names Thomas Eaton , "long in office," and George Stover, incumbent in 1880 (his entry above).
- 1880The meeting-house of 1868, identified
Chapman, in 1880, places a German Baptist church building on section 24, erected 1868, its first pastors Jacob Cripe and Christian Wenger, its pastor in 1880 John B. Wrightsman.
20th century 3 dated mentions
1900s
- 1907The ground — glacial course and soils
Howard's township description, carried at frame strength, gives Clay Township's soil as "chiefly sand and gravel" — the verbatim first-hand extraction of that sentence from the 1907 text stands as a named settler in the note rather than a quotation manufactured here.
1910s
- 1916The funeral line, 1916–1928: the congregation's last services
In October 1916 the funeral of Susan Wells was held "from the residence and at 2.30 o'clock from the Ullery church, Rev Cripe officiating.
1990s
- 19901990–2026: the official course — census, county, fire territory, FEMA
From 1990 the name runs in the official record without a break. The 1990 census carriers tabulate Indian Village among the county's places as an incorporated place — the floor the frame pass printed for the incorporation gap, G-FR-1.
21st century 12 dated mentions
2010s
- 2010The clerk-treasurers: Schosker, Naragon, Jozwiak
Naragon is independently placed in the chair inside her term by the 2007–2009 examination's exit conference: "The contents of this report were discussed on July 8, 2010, with Kay Naragon, Clerk-Treasurer."
- 2010The presidents: Oppenheim, a two-year gap, Oppenheim
The 2007–2009 examination schedules Gerri Oppenheim as president of the town council from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2010 .
2020s
- 2020The frame
The 2020 Census gazetteer gives the town 237,898 square metres of land (0.092 square miles) and no water area , and an internal point at 41.714238° N, −86.232189° W…
- 2023The budget course: restriction in 2023, restriction in 2025, a $452 levy proposed for 2027
The 2023 order prints, at search strength, that the town's appropriations "were restricted to the prior year total because the budget was not properly appropriated," with two funds further noting the unit "failed to provide verification of 06/30 cash and appropriation balances" — a unit total of $36,100, levy $0.
- 2024–2026The assigned and candidate schools, as they stand in November 2026
Darden Elementary School , 18645 Janet Street: open, kindergarten to grade 5, 375 students on the federal directory's 2024–25 details (the aggregator layers print 348, and older layers 451–522 — conflict C11, unmerged), and one of six elementary schools reconfigured to include pre-kindergarten from 2026–27, so a PreK–5 school today.
- 2026The members and the attorney: named only on the current roster
Of the council's members below the president, the record reached names only the sitting set: Wade Stoller and Mary Jo Krisor , members on the November 2026 county roster, with Jack Krisor as the town's attorney.
- 202624 March 2026: the fire-territory merger vote
On Tuesday 24 March 2026 the township boards of Clay, Penn, Harris and German and the town councils of Osceola, Roseland and Indian Village voted at a 5:30 p.m. public meeting at the Moose Family Center, 123 Bain Street, Mishawaka, on merging the Clay and Penn fire territories into a single territory from 2027.
- 2026The 2026 election as it touched the town — unofficial, certification not yet due
The frame pass's settlement stands and is not re-opened: no Indian Village seat stood on the 3 November 2026 ballot — the Clerk's complete summary contains town contests for New Carlisle, North Liberty, Roseland and Walkerton only.
- 2026Fire — the merger's standing as 2027 approaches
The frame pass's record holds: on 24 March 2026 the boards of seven communities — Clay, German, Harris and Penn townships and the towns of Osceola, Indian Village and Roseland — voted to merge the Clay and Penn fire territories into one, beginning in 2027…
- 2026The board: District 5, and a map that was wrong
Greene, the board's 2026 president, did not seek re-election; John Paczesny, the lone uncontested candidate for District 5 in the November 2026 election, is presumptive trustee from January 2027, the certified canvass outstanding (its settler class is the County Clerk's canvass…
- 2026The present state, dated November 2026
The town's religious landscape in November 2026 is a landscape of absence inside the line and presence around it.
- 2026Candidate three: the merger vote of 24 March 2026 — the same shape, the same result
On 24 March 2026 the township boards of Clay, Penn, Harris and German and the town councils of Osceola, Roseland and Indian Village voted at a public meeting in Mishawaka on merging the Clay and Penn fire territories into a single territory from 2027, and the merger was approved…