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1880–2022 · ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, WITH PENN'S SHARE STATED
The frame is printed in-fragment here, as the row requires, at every point the open record could verify, with the holes named rather than filled. The modern end is banked and exact, from the USDA Census of Agriculture county data: 2017 — 629 farms, 149,981 acres in farms, average size 238 acres; 2022 — 547 farms, 153,034 acres, average size 280 acres (farms down 82 in five years while land in farms rose 3,053 acres — consolidation, counted, not characterised beyond the figures). The nineteenth-century structure is carried in the published census volumes the row names as settler class — the decennial agriculture volumes (1880–1920) and the quinquennial Censuses of Agriculture (1925 onward, incl. the 1950 Vol. I county tables for Indiana) print number of farms, acreage and average size for St. Joseph County at each census — but the county figures for the intervening years (1880, 1900, 1920, 1950, 1978, 1997) could not be extracted and verified from those volumes from this seat: the historical county series is distributed as scanned volumes and as the ICPSR/USGS county datasets (ICPSR 35206, U.S. Agriculture Data 1840–2012; USGS LaMotte 1950–2012 extracts), neither openly downloadable to this seat in the time of the pass, and no intervening figure is printed from memory or estimated.
Named gap (series interior): the St. Joseph County farms / acres / average-size figures at the historical censuses between 1880 and 2017. Settler: USDA NASS QuickStats and the Census of Agriculture historical county tables (with the ICPSR 35206 / USGS county datasets as the machine-readable form of the same record) — one extraction closes the series whole. Penn Township's own 1880 row remains the banked farms fragment's closing-roll gap (1) and is not duplicated here. What stands in-fragment after this article is a frame with its ends verified — the modern pair exact, the series' existence, publisher and table structure verified for every historical census — and its middle honestly named.
Sources: USDA Census of Agriculture, St. Census Bureau, Census of Agriculture volumes 1880–1950 (county tables, Indiana); ICPSR Study 35206 and USGS Census of Agriculture county datasets (1950–2017) — access attempted Nov. 2026.