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1816–1850 · the state-as-landowner record for Township 36 North, Range 2 East
Inside every surveyed township the plat carried reservations that were not treaty reserves, and this township's are accounted here at the strength the general record allows. The school section came first in law: Indiana's Enabling Act of 1816 granted section 16 of every township to the inhabitants of that township for the use of schools, so Section 16 of Township 36 North, Range 2 East — a mile-square two sections north of the townsite's southern row — entered the plat as school land before any settler entry, to be leased or sold under the township school trustees for the school fund. The swamp class came last: the federal Swamp Land Act of 1850 granted Indiana its swamp and overflowed lands, and the state's selections were made county by county; this township drains south off the divide and was never marsh country of the Kankakee kind, and no carrier reached names a swamp selection inside the townsite plat. The third class, a county purchase — ground the county itself bought out of the public domain, of the kind some Indiana counties used for a county farm or asylum farm — is not named for this township in any carrier reached. The residue is stated plainly: the tract-by-tract disposition of Section 16 and any swamp selections in this township stands in the General Land Office tract books and the Indiana school and swamp land records, which are the named settler, current; what is printed here is the legal frame, the section's identity, and the negative for the townsite itself.