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A FAMILY OF PLATS, WORKED AS ONE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH ITS PARTS COUNTED
Founding plats and size. The Boles name — carried in the parcel descriptions in the “Bole's” spelling — is the town's largest family of plats: Bole's 1st at about 32 parcels, the wider family near 40 across its successive plats and replats (Neighborhoods, roster, largest first). A family this size is a subdividing career, not a single act: one holder, or one family's successive generations or estates, returning to the plat books again and again as the town's growth justified another slice. Subdivider. The family is nameable; the persons are not, on the record reached — the parcel instrument never pulled owners, and no Chapman / Howard sketch or directory line reached fixes the Boles subdivider(s) biographically. One address in another leg touches the name without settling it: this history's Lions Club register line is carried “care of 223 North Boles Street” — a Boles street, which proves the name reached the town's street plan as well as its plat books, and proves nothing about the person. Both facts are printed; neither is inflated into the other. Street plan and character. A named Boles street inside a family of about 40 parcels is the closest this town comes to a subdivider's quarter: successive residential additions on the town's ordinary lot pattern, accreting over time rather than opening at once. Present state: the family total stands near 40 live parcels in November 2026, each part still separately describable in its parcels' legal lines. Named gaps (per-plat settler): each part's founding date, book and page, original lot count and the subdividers' identities — the Recorder's plat books, plat by plat for Bole's 1st and each successor plat.
Sources:
- Neighborhoods, banked (Bole's 1st about 32 parcels; family near 40).
- this history, banked (Lions register line, care of 223 North Boles Street) — street-name evidence only, as stated. Recorder's plat books named as settler.