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1836 or 1837 · Daniel and James P. Antrim
North Liberty's first map is its plat, and its date is the build's standing conflict: Howard (1907) carries the laying-out to 1836, Chapman (1880) to 1837, and the town's 2015 comprehensive plan prints both, crediting Daniel Antrim with establishment on 12 January 1836 and the platting to 1837. A local summary of Chapman's account adds the plat's first year in houses: no houses stood on the site when Daniel and James P. Antrim laid the town out; James Downey soon built one, four more rose the same year, and Daniel Antrim opened the first store in 1837. The 1875 atlas plat, read in the Cole tracing (Walkerton Area Historical Society, 2026), shows the plat grown by additions — Cole's Addition on the south side is named there — the standard mechanism by which a plat map becomes a town map, one recorded addition at a time.