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1913 – NOVEMBER 2026 · WALKERTON 6 MILES, SOUTH BEND ~15
The town's licensing geography never changed its shape — only the counters' names did. From 1913 into the early 1920s: the mail, and the notary channel (above). From the early 1920s through 1929: the department's county-seat counters at South Bend, at the strength reached. Through the patronage era, 1929–1988: the county organisation's counters — South Bend, and Walkerton once Walkerton's branch was seated (its seating date is gapped in Walkerton's own running and is not filled from here). Through the commission era, 1988–2021: the same three counters — South Bend, Mishawaka, and Walkerton in its last documented form, part-time, Tuesday and Thursday only. From 2021 to November 2026: Walkerton's staffed seat ended in the 2021–22 consolidation (its whole is Walkerton's; a reduced agency and kiosk presence persists there at directory strength), and North Liberty's full-service counters are South Bend's Ireland Road branch and Mishawaka's — both Active in the Bureau's current place records. The distances are the gazetteers' and the map's: Walkerton 6 miles by Polk (5.49 miles straight-line), South Bend 13.79 miles straight-line and about 15.8 by road. A North Liberty resident's branch was always a drive; the only question each era answered was which drive, and to whose counter.
Principal sources: the BMV record classes of the verdict article; Polk 1880–81/1884–85 (distances); the Walkerton and South Bend/Mishawaka packages (pointers, for the seats' wholes).