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Established 2022
Fire protection for the town runs through a fire protection territory formed in 2022, with Liberty Township as the provider unit. The Liberty–Greene Fire Protection Territory was established under IC 36-8-19 by resolutions adopted 28 March 2022; the Department of Local Government Finance's final determination (IML22-006) names the units as Greene Township, Liberty Township and the Town of North Liberty, with Liberty Township the provider unit and the town and Greene Township participating. The determination's caption itself spells the partner township's name two ways — "Green" in places, "Greene" in others — and both spellings print; the township's own usage, Greene, governs. The operating department's name in current use is the Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department, carried on an October 2026 national recipient list; its station stands at 305 South State Street, opened in 2017 on a weaker carrier, printed at pointer strength. In 2026 the territory was in expansion hearings — the town's minutes index lists Fire Territory Expansion meetings on 22 January, 4 and 12 February (the last a public hearing) and 5 March 2026, and the expansion presentation shows Centre Township and its fire department as the proposed joining unit. Whether the expansion was adopted was not reached; the settler is the units' ordinances and resolutions and the DLGF determination for the expansion. The fire leg digs the department's own course whole.