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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 finding aid gives it (state as of 20 December 2021). It opens with an 1838 map of South Bend and an 1876 plan of South Bend and Mishawaka (digitized); then a 1903 map of the city of South Bend; Hibberd's maps of 1908, of South Bend and of Mishawaka & River Park; a 1921 map of South Bend and Mishawaka; the Greater South Bend and Mishawaka sheets of 1937, 1939 and 1941; a 1948 South Bend and Mishawaka map; Bruggner's 1958 street map of St. Joseph County; street maps of 1969–70, 1973, about 1980 and 1982; and then, in 1985, the first sheet in the run whose title names this ground: a map of “South Bend, Mishawaka, Osceola, Granger, Indiana.” The run continues — city maps of South Bend and Mishawaka in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001, a Greater South Bend–Elkhart sheet of 1993–94, and the run's last dated entry of 2004–05 — with the two cities in every title and Osceola named in none after 1985, covered as the region's eastern ground rather than titled as a subject.
The finding, at this ground's size: the working-map series of this region is a two-city series, 1838–2005, and Osceola stands inside it the way the town stands inside the region — drawn on the sheets from the county's earliest surveys, named on one title in 168 years of the run. No street sheet of Osceola alone stands in the county's public map case. A town-issued official map, if one exists, is a named gap: its settlers are the map rooms themselves — the SJCPL Local & Family History map case read drawer by drawer, and the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library's local history room — and the county recorder's plat books, which hold the town's drawn record (the 1837 plat and the additions) in legal rather than street-map form. The checklist's 1876–2005 span is covered by the run above at county strength; the town-only sheet is the residue, and it is named rather than invented.
St. Joseph County Public Library, “Maps in Local & Family History's Map Case” finding aid (Michiana Memory, sjcpl.org), street-maps section read whole, state as of 20 December 2021; this build's Neighborhoods and Sources legs (the plat books and the parcel record) via the audit register.