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Named gaps, with their settlers
The survey-era ground truth — villages, trails, clearings, and the creek valley's use as the first surveyors found it — waits on the General Land Office field notes and plats for Township 36 North, Range 1 East. The valley's village geography at treaty strength waits on the Indian Claims Commission record for the St. Joseph country, the same record the county's cession questions elsewhere already cite. The unnamed trail Chapman mentions wants the 1875 atlas's Liberty Township maps, printed at pages 54–55 of that volume, read against the survey notes. And the town's own history volume — Saltzgaber's Genesis of North Liberty (1978), whose copy no pass has yet located — may carry tradition this section has deliberately not repeated at second hand. Until those records are read, this section stands at the strength printed: one nation, one taking, no village and no reserve on the ground, and the descendants named.