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Maps — the ground drawn, from the imperial sheets to the photographic map
The maps leg for this ground opens late, and the lateness is itself the first finding: no European sheet draws Baugo Creek, the townsite is invisible to imperial cartography, and this ground enters the drawn record only with the federal survey of 1817–1829, which the Land leg already owns. What this section runs is the rest of the floor's tests, each printed at its result. The first county map exists and is catalogued whole at the Library of Congress (item 4). The bird's-eye and Sanborn tests both come back negative, and the negatives are printed with the searches shown (items 6, 8). The working-map run is compiled from the county library's own map-case finding aid, and it shows Osceola entering the region's street sheets by name only in 1985 (item 7). The topographic record names a quadrangle for the town itself (item 12). As of November 2026.
The ground on imperial maps first: the river on French sheets, 1679–1763
1679 – 1763 · Run B #182
The river enters print before the ground does: the St. Joseph River reached European paper with La Salle's expedition of December 1679 — the party raised Fort Miami at the river's mouth and on 3 December 1679 ascended the river…
The first county map: Stokes and Shober, 1863, read from its catalogue record whole
1863 · Run B #183
The test comes back positive, and the map is this town's own surveyor's: the Library of Congress holds the first map of St. Joseph County, and its record is printed whole. Title: Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana . Maker: M. W.…
The bird's-eye test: no panoramic view of Osceola was ever made in the record reached
1866 – 2026 · Run B #184
Tested negative, in the Mishawaka form — the negative printed, with the county's one view placed: the panoramic-map era drew the valley's city, not its towns. The county library's map case holds the region's bird's-eye at South…
The working map run: the region's street sheets as a dated series, and where Osceola enters them
1838 – 2005 · Run B #185
The series, compiled from the county library's own map case: the St. Joseph County Public Library's Local & Family History map case holds the working street maps of this region as a dated run, and the run is printed here as the…
The Sanborn test: no fire-insurance survey of Osceola exists in the collections searched
1883 – 1966 · Run B #186
Tested negative, with the county's positive runs placed beside it: the Sanborn Map Company surveyed Indiana's insurable towns from the 1880s to the middle 1950s — as many as ten editions for some towns, in the State Library's…
Roads, mail and highways maps: the county drawn for travellers, as its own class
1856 – 2026 · Run B #187
The travellers' class, compiled from its carriers: the county library's map case keeps this class in its own groups, and its contents date the class's life. Its early sheets are state maps drawn for the road user before the…
Booster cartography: the 1875 atlas's Osceola and Penn plates, read as advertisement
1875 · Run B #188
The map as persuasion, named as persuasion: the subscription atlas was the nineteenth century's advertising medium disguised as geography. A Chicago atlas house canvassed the county, sold subscriptions to the farmers and…
The national topographic record: this ground's sheets, named by quadrangle
7.5-minute series · Run B #189
The ground lies on a quadrangle named for the town itself: the United States Geological Survey's 7.5-minute series, at 1:24,000, covers this ground on the Osceola quadrangle , Indiana — the town gives the national series a sheet…
From the air: the photographic map — the coverage frame whole, and the first flight named as a gap
1930s – 2026 · Run B #190
The frame: the photographic map of this ground begins with the federal farm flights. From the late 1930s the Department of Agriculture's adjustment and conservation programs photographed American farmland county by county, St.…