Roads, mail, and highways: the county sheets

The roads themselves belong to the corridors pass; the state and federal road-map series are inventoried here at one-line strength

Every road map is two documents: the road, and the bureaucracy that needed it drawn. The State Library's county list carries the series, and this section inventories it without re-walking the roads. The federal mail comes first: the Post Office's rural-delivery county maps of 1910 and of the 1940s, drawn so that rural routes out of Mishawaka's and the county's post offices could be assigned, ridden, and paid. The county's own engineers follow: E. A. Feldman's road map of 1933 and drainage map of 1934 — the drainage sheet the more Mishawaka document of the two, in a township of ditches and tiles — and the State Highway Survey Commission's county Road and Cultural maps of about 1936. The postwar state series standardizes the genre: the General Highway and Transportation Map of St. Joseph County in editions of 1949, 1961, 1976, and 1980, flanked by the locally printed section maps of 1945 (Mirror Press) and 1948 (Ideal Press). The series' living descendant is the Indiana Department of Transportation's functional-classification mapping — its South Bend–Mishawaka area sheets, current as of 23 January 2009 in the edition read, rule every street in the city into a federal functional class, the road map become a funding instrument. Corridors carries the roads' own history; these sheets are its evidence locker.

Sources:

1. Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County maps list: the rural-delivery maps of 1910 and [194-]; Feldman's road (1933) and drainage (1934) maps; the Highway Survey Commission Road and Cultural maps [1936?]; the General Highway and Transportation Map editions of 1949, 1961, 1976, and 1980; the section maps of 1945 and 1948.
2. Indiana Department of Transportation, functional-classification map sheets, South Bend–Mishawaka area (current as of 23 January 2009): the Mishawaka Area sheets.