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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 Michiana Area Council of Governments — the county's own mapping pages route the public to the MACOG-served GIS viewers and parcel records, through which the plats' digital survival can be checked section by section: the 1859 plat's lots, the section grid of Township 36 North, Range 2 East, and the town's parcels all persist as live layers, corrected as deeds are recorded, which is the precise sense in which the historic plat is a living map in November 2026. Beside the digital survival, the physical one, gathered from the sources file's holdings articles: the 1863 Stokes map at the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, under its call number; the county atlas and map bibliography at the Indiana State Library, which does not own the 1863 sheet and says so; the society manuscripts and local collections at the Notre Dame Archives and the History Museum; and the library's Local and Family History department as the working shelf for the county's map copies. Residue: this section verified the living map's route and keepers at publication strength; it did not audit the GIS layer by layer, and no layer-level claim is made. The item closes mixed on that stated limit.