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THE SEATS NEW CARLISLE USES · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
Four counters, in four towns, have carried this ground's licensing across the modern era — and every one of them belongs whole to its home town's build:
The counter at the county seat is the system's oldest pole here. The Bureau's own releases of October 2014 name the South Bend branch at 623 South St. Joseph Street, downtown, as a full-service branch. A second South Bend seat stands on the city's south side at 1139 East Ireland Road, named in the Bureau's current branch list, as mirrored in November 2026, as the "South Bend BMV Branch + Kiosk" — the Bureau's place record gives its hours as 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The current status of the St. Joseph Street seat is a printed conflict in the sibling runnings — directories still carry it while the Bureau's current list names Ireland Road — and it is carried whole there; the Bureau's own list, read directly, settles it, and South Bend's running owns the succession either way. For a New Carlisle household the run is the town's own corridor: east on U.S. 20 and into the city, about twelve miles.
The counter the county's east side uses stands in Mishawaka, at 2544 Miracle Lane, just off the Grape Road corridor. The Bureau's branch record, read in November 2026, lists the Mishawaka branch active at that address — Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — with a BMV Connect Center at the same address open twenty-four hours a day, opened January 17, 2019, the second Connect Center in the state.
The county's smallest seat is Walkerton, at 302 Roosevelt Road in the county's southwest corner — for most of a century a part-time agency on a Tuesday-and-Thursday week, the one outlying branch the patronage map ever planted on this side of the county, and the subject of the state's two formal attempts to be rid of it, in 2005 and again in the consolidation notice of 2021.
And because this town stands three miles from the county line, its fourth counter stands outside the county altogether: the La Porte branch, at 1301 Pine Lake Avenue in La Porte, 13.3 miles west on the town's own highway in the Bureau's place record — as near to a western Olive Township farm as South Bend is, and the counter that part of the township has always been free to use, since a Hoosier may transact at any branch in the state. The four counters frame the town's licensing geography whole: the county seat east, the county's east-side city beyond it, the county's outpost southwest, and the next county's seat west — with no counter, in any era the record reaches, at home.