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THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
What this section could not settle is named, with the source that settles each item, so no gap here is silent:
Tested negative — a branch inside the town. Searched: the Bureau's published branch record across the modern era (the October 2017 branch-locations map; the October 2014 releases; the FY2019 annual report; the current branch list and place records, read November 2026); the Polk village listings for Osceola read whole (1884–85; 1916–17); the press of record as reached. No Osceola-seated branch appears in any of it. Settlers for any contrary claim: the Polk city directories' classified sections for the patronage decades (Indiana State Library microfilm; Ancestry's directory collection); the South Bend Tribune and News-Times full text (St. Joseph County Public Library; Hoosier State Chronicles); the Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commission's branch records.
GAP-O10-BMV-1 — The classified-sections run. The Polk classified business sections of the county volumes, decade by decade through the patronage era, have not been separately read for an Osceola entry; the Bureau record's silence makes a seat improbable, but the directory test at full depth is this item. Settlers: Polk classified sections (Indiana State Library microfilm; Ancestry directories).
GAP-O10-BMV-2 — St. Joseph County's patronage-era branch managers. The system's mechanics are documented; this county's holders, administration by administration, are not named in the record reached. The same gap stands in the Granger running (its GAP-BMV-2); it is one county gap, owned by the county's runnings jointly. Settlers: the Tribune and News-Times files; Polk directories; the BMV Commission's minutes and appointment records.
GAP-O10-BMV-3 — The serving branches' seat successions (owed by their home cities).This section prints both at pointer size only. Settlers: as named in those runnings.
GAP-O10-BMV-4 — The 1950 plate codes. The plate-history record gives St. Joseph County's 1950 two-letter codes as BB–BH; the ShopLicensePlates key prints BB–BK and BN. Printed whole in the plate article, unharmonized. Settlers: surviving 1950-issue plates; the Bureau's issuance records.
GAP-O10-BMV-5 — The Mishawaka and Walkerton branch letters. The 1999–2003 branch-letter record reached gives South Bend's letter (E) only. Settlers: the plate references' full branch-letter tables; surviving plates.
GAP-O10-BMV-6 — First registrations and first licenses at documented size. The county's plate-allocation ceilings (69,993 under the 1950 scheme; 239,976 under the 1963 scheme) are printed from the plate-history record; actual registration counts for the county — and any count separable for Penn Township — stand in records not reached. Settlers: the Secretary of State's annual reports (registrations by county); the Bureau's annual reports.
GAP-O10-BMV-7 — The current branch managers. The Bureau's public listings name the Commissioner (Kevin Garvey, May 2025) but not the managers of the Mishawaka and South Bend branches. The same absence stands in the Granger running (its GAP-BMV-6). Settlers: the Bureau's own announcements; the Tribune.
Printed conflict — the South Bend seat. Directories carry both 623 South St. Joseph Street and 1139 East Ireland Road as South Bend license agencies; the Bureau's current list as mirrored names Ireland Road; one current directory marks Ireland Road closed while others list it open. Carried whole; the Bureau's own list, read directly, settles it, and South Bend's running owns the succession.