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Banked record, Farms & Crops lk-frm-county-numbers and lk-frm-township-ground; this lane's searches, November 2026
The county's agricultural system stands banked at full depth — farms falling from a thousand in 1982 to 547 in 2022, corn and soybeans and hogs counted to the head — but Union Township's own corn-and-livestock form, the shape of farming as this township practised it, stands a gap in the banked file, and this section could not fill it from open sources. The distinction matters and is printed so it cannot blur: a county series describes sixty-eight thousand acres of everybody's farming; a township form would say what Union Township's drained clay and marsh ground actually carried — its corn share, its cattle and hog balance, its farm sizes against the county's 238 and 280 acres. No township-level run of the printed census agriculture volumes, and no township agricultural report, was extracted or reached, and the township's reports, if they survive, survive in the same printed volumes that hold the county rows of the article above. The settler is therefore shared and stands current: the printed census agriculture volumes and township reports, read for Union Township entire. What the leg can print of the township's form today is only its ground, which the banked article proves — heavily timbered clay and marsh drained into "choicest farms" — and ground is not a crop system. The gap is named, not bridged.