The Olive Township line, settled: the Buffalo Run crosses this township

item 4 — the county's only trail told at county size, with the township line printed

Yes — at township frame, the trail touches this ground, and the settling source is the one the gap named: the Indiana DNR's Buffalo Run trail map, last updated 8 January 2026, plots the trail's western-county line through the ground this build covers. The map names New Carlisle on the route; it lists the trail's New Carlisle point by name and address — American Legion Post 297, 486 E. Michigan Street, New Carlisle, IN 46552; it names Bendix Woods County Park, which stands on Olive Township ground south of the town; and it marks the trail's caution crossings on the township's own two highway corridors, U.S. Highway 20 (at Taylor Ditch) and State Road 2. A route that is plotted through the township's park, across both of the township's highways, and to a named point on the town's main street crosses Olive Township ground by any reading of the map, and GAP-NC5-REC-2's question is answered in print on that basis: the Buffalo Run touches Olive Township. The town-limits line prints separately and honestly: the DNR map does not draw the incorporated boundary of the Town of New Carlisle, and it shows no trailhead inside the town — its signed trailhead stands at the route's Crumstown end — so the settled claim is the township claim, printed at township strength, and no trail is claimed for the town beyond the map's own New Carlisle point. The banked recreation article's open question ("whether that trail or any club trail touches Olive Township ground was not settled in the sources read") is superseded by this reading of its own named settler, and the change is logged as a delta candidate in this cluster's closures.

Sources:

1. Indiana DNR, Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail map (last updated 1/8/2026) — the plotted route; "New Carlisle" named; "American Legion Post 297, 486 E Michigan St, New Carlisle, IN 46552"; "Bendix Woods County Park"; the caution crossings at U.S. Highway 20 / Taylor Ditch and State Road 2.