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Civil War era
Between the plat and the atlas, the county was drawn whole once in the record this build has located: a Civil War-era wall map of St. Joseph County, held today by the Library of Congress's Geography and Map Division, whose sheet carries a New Carlisle inset — the town drawn at map scale a generation before the atlas, inside a county frame. The sources leg located the sheet and its inset from the Library's own record and banked it at that strength, and this section prints it at exactly that strength and no further: wall maps of its class were the working geography of their decade — the map a courthouse, a land office and a prosperous farmhouse consulted — and the inset convention, by which the sheet's margins bloom into town plans, is how a village of this size first appears in county cartography at readable scale. The checklist's class test for a first county map asks for makers and a date; for this sheet, neither was carried in the record the sources leg banked, and the want is entered as GAP-NC6-MAPS-4 with the Library of Congress's catalog record for the sheet itself named as settler — the imprint stands on the sheet and in its cataloging, and this section does not borrow a maker or a year from any other county's map. (The floor's test case is another city's: the 1863 Stokes and Shober sheet belongs to South Bend's telling of this same class, and is printed there; whether the wall map located here and that sheet are kin is a question the catalog record settles, not this article.)
Sources
- This build's Sources — the sheet's standing in the build's pull list.