The living map, verified as of November 2026

Verified November 2026

The checklist's last requirement is a date: the living map — the map a resident actually uses — verified as of a stated moment, and this article's moment is November 2026. The living map of New Carlisle's ground is the county's geographic information system: St. Joseph County's GIS and parcel service, where the plats of 1835 and their successors survive as digital parcels, searchable by the descendants of the very lots the dedication drew. Its character is stated with the class warning this build learned in the sister town to the west: the county's parcel application is a click-driven map, which in the Walkerton build refused a text seat's single-parcel lookup outright — the living map is alive for the citizen at the screen and markedly less open to the archive, and the plats' digital survival is therefore verified here at the level of the system's existence and address, not of any parcel read from it. The older sheets' digital survival is better and is verified in kind: the 1875 atlas lives whole at the Internet Archive, read first-hand for this build from that copy; the county's maps and atlases are held digitally in Michiana Memory, the public library's local-history collection, per the sources leg; and the federal living layers — the Census Bureau's TIGER geography behind the township's reference record, the GNIS points behind every listing in this section — were each read in the passes that used them, at the dates those passes state. A map history that ends in 1929 would be a lie about how the town is actually known; this one ends, as of November 2026, with the plat of 1835 still governing — its hundred-foot street still the widest in town — under a parcel fabric its maker could not have imagined, in a system that shows his lots to anyone who clicks.

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2. Internet Archive — the 1875 atlas's digital copy, read first-hand; Michiana Memory (St. Joseph County Public Library) — the county's digital map holdings, per Sources.