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THE PARCEL INSTRUMENT: METHOD, COUNTS, AND LIMITS, ALL PRINTED
The roster of the town's platted neighborhoods, counted from the county's own parcel layer in November 2026: the instrument is the St. Joseph County parcel layer (the City of South Bend GIS LandRecords Parcels service, county parcels), pulled in envelope tiles over the town's bounding box and tested against the Census Bureau's published polygon for the town (Incorporated Places, GEOID 1857114). Of the parcels whose centroids fall inside the town polygon — 1,388, with 27 more straddling the line — 718 resolve to a named plat in their legal descriptions, parsed in two passes (in this county's descriptions the plat name follows the lot reference). Owner fields were never pulled; the instrument reads descriptions, not people. The roster, largest first: Moran Addition, 44 parcels — the town's largest named neighborhood by parcel count. The founding plat as "Osceola Pl Pro," about 39 across its variants. The Bole's family of plats, about 32 in Bole's 1st with its wider family near 40. Long's 1st, 28, its family near 30. The Barnes family, about 30 across Barnes 1st, 2nd and the Addition to Osceola. Henderson, about 23. The Zimmer family, about 22 across Zimmer's 1st and 2nd and the later replats that carry family and successor names — Chen's, Huffman's, Boling's, Dale Zimmer. Proudfit, about 17. Thrall's Addition, 14, and Enger's, 14. Shepherd's Cove, 13, and River Wood Landing, 13 and more with its replats. The Bancroft plats, 2nd and 3rd, about 8 — the mill family's name in the plat record a century after the mill. Riverside Resort, 8. Bennett's Osceola Place, 6. Nutlawn Addition, 5. Then the minors, at their true size: Wilson Realty's Peony Avenue Minor, Oak Brook Estates at 3, Maloney Acres at 3, Chestnut Acres at 2, Baugo Bay Minor Subdivision at 2, and the Riverview Woods condominium at 2 units. The instrument's limits print with its results: 131 descriptions in the pull are ampersand-initial continuations that the parse could not attach to a plat name, and the unresolved balance of the 1,388 — metes-and-bounds parcels, railroad and highway ground, and descriptions in forms the parse did not take — is the roster's stated residue, not a silence. Plat dates, where the parcel record itself gives none, are the Recorder's plat books' to settle, and this section asserts none it does not hold.