The neighborhoods today, dated November 2026

THE PARCEL CENSUS OF THE BUILT TOWN

As of the November 2026 pull, the built town counts 1,388 parcels inside its polygon, with 27 more straddling the line: by the county's class codes, the fabric is overwhelmingly residential — 1,055 parcels coded single-family residential (class 510), with 95 in the vacant-residential class (500) and 34 in the class the county carries at 640, and the balance in the commercial, industrial and exempt tails a small town's parcel census shows: its churches, its school ground, its town hall, its Legion post, its rail and highway strips. The parcels' own acreage field sums to 728.2 acres inside the line, against the town's roughly 871 acres of land in the 2020 Gazetteer measure — the difference is the unparcelled ground: road and rail rights-of-way, the river's own bed and banks, park and public ground. Three parcels in the pull carry a blank township field against 1,385 carrying Penn, a data blemish printed as found. That is the town its plats made, stated in the county's numbers: a single-family town of about fourteen hundred parcels, still described — 39 of them — by the words of a plat vacated in 1842.

Sources:

1. The parcel instrument: City of South Bend GIS, LandRecords MapServer, Parcels_County layer (fields OBJECTID, PARCELID, LEGALDESCR, PROP_ADDR, ACREAGE, CLASSCODE, TOWNSHIP, TAXDIST — owner fields never requested), envelope-tile pull over the town's bounding box, November 2026; town polygon from the Census Bureau's TIGERweb Incorporated Places layer (GEOID 1857114); centroid containment by ray-casting, the Granger neighborhoods precedent; plat roster parsed from LEGALDESCR in two passes, with the parse residue (131 ampersand-initial continuations) disclosed in the roster article.
2. Howard (1907), pp. 308–310 — the 1837 plat record, the vacatur of 31 January 1842 (Local Laws of 1841, p. 166), Thrall's addition of 24 April 1856 and the Stokes survey of 4 June 1859, Williamsport and Canton; Chapman (1880) as carried in the Story of Osceola section.
3. The town's published record as carried in the Story of Osceola section and Government: the 1993 ordinance and Kirk v. Town of Osceola (669 N.E.3d 1060); the Bowen atlas (1917) unincorporated-villages listing; the census volumes' annexation footnotes as carried in Population.