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Maps
Maps
The 1875 Atlas is simultaneously this build's map, plat, and directory source. The row-set: the 1863 Stokes map (banked row; its full Library of Congress imprint — Stokes and Shober, Philadelphia, 1863, six sheets on linen, with…
The ground on imperial maps: the river on French sheets, 1679–1763
French-era cartography of the St. Joseph and the Kankakee, at range strength
Before there was a survey there was a river on French paper, and the maps leg begins there: this valley entered cartography as a route, not as a place. The St. Joseph River and its portage to the Kankakee were working geography…
The first county map at full size: Stokes and Shober, Philadelphia, 1863
The Library of Congress catalogue record, read whole
The 1863 map the maps file carried in one line stands here with its makers, its making, and its contents — including this town's first portrait on paper. The Library of Congress catalogues it as: Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana …
The atlas trade whole: from a wall map to the GIS age, makers named
1863–1917 and after · the succession run once, with its gaps named
The county's commercial cartography runs in a line, and the line is printed here once, as a trade succession rather than as single maps. It opens before the atlas era proper, with the wall map: Stokes and Shober's 1863 county…
The bird's-eye test: no panoramic view of Lakeville was ever made, as far as the national collection shows
The Library of Congress panoramic maps collection, searched for this ground
South Bend has its Ruger view of 1866; Lakeville has none, and the negative is now printed in the maps treatment where the floor requires it. The test is the national one: the Library of Congress panoramic maps collection — the…
The working street map, as a dated series at the strength reached
1863–2026 · insets, plats, quadrangles, and the county street layer
Lakeville never had a street-map trade of its own; its working street record is a series of other people's sheets, and the series is dated here as far as the record reaches. The run: 1863, the town's inset plan in the Stokes…
Plans as maps: the town drawn as it was meant to become, plan by plan
The Town of Lakeville Comprehensive Plan 2011, read as maps
The 2011 plan is this town's one great plan-as-map, and its map set is read here as cartography, as the checklist requires. The document: the Town of Lakeville Comprehensive Plan , carried on the county's own site, in draft dated…
Booster cartography: the map as advertisement, named as persuasion
The 1863 and 1875 sheets read as salesmanship
This county's first two great maps were both advertisements, and the maps leg names them so, as the floor requires — persuasion first, evidence second, each read accordingly throughout this build. The 1863 Stokes map is the type…
From the air: the photographic map, dated by its imagery
The Lakeville quadrangle's imagery credits, 2008–2016; first-coverage residue named
The photographic map of this ground can be dated by its own credits, and the dated run is printed here from the sheets themselves. The USGS US Topo editions of the Lakeville quadrangle — the town's topo sheet of record, per the…
The living map: the county GIS, and where the historic maps physically live
Verified as of November 2026 at the strength stated
The county's map is now a service, not a sheet, and this article names the service, its keeper, and the shelves where the paper maps live. St. Joseph County's geographic information is maintained as a regional system through the…