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1924–PRESENT · THE CHAPTER IS THE COUNTY'S, SEATED IN SOUTH BEND; NO CHAPTER ON THIS GROUND
The chapter at full size, as the checklist orders — and its seat is the county seat: the St. Joseph County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, founded in January 1924, two years after the national league's 1922 founding, is one of the league's oldest chapters on its own account. Its ground stands at 20400 Darden Road, South Bend: Juday Creek, three ponds (two stocked for fishing), the St. Joseph River, wetlands, marshes and woodlands — its acreage printed in its own variance whole: over 130 acres in the chapter's current published account, 120 acres in its own membership applications of 2015 and 2023, never merged. The chapter remains active in November 2026, taking 2027 memberships on its own site, its mail at a South Bend post-office box. That is the conservation club at full size for this county entire: one chapter, county-named, city-seated, serving the whole county's ground including this township's — Osceola members would hold their membership there, as the chapter's own form states its membership is for the St. Joseph County chapter only. The rest at pointer, labeled as pointer: no Izaak Walton League chapter, conservation club or sportsmen's club seated in Osceola or Penn Township stands in the league's chapter record reached or in the register read whole — the Crumstown Conservation Club of the Dyngus schedule is a township club of the county's west side, pointed to in the Food leg's hall-circuit article and not re-told — and the township's conservation ground itself, the county park's marsh and creek habitat, is Parks' whole. The item closes with the chapter told whole at its county size and this ground's line printed plainly: served by the chapter, seat of none.
From the Izaak Walton League St. Joseph County Chapter's own publications (ikesb.com and the chapter's membership applications: founded January 1924; the national league 1922; 20400 Darden Rd, South Bend; Juday Creek, the ponds, the river frontage; "over 130 acres" in the current account against "120 acres" in the 2015 and 2023 applications, printed unmerged; 2027 memberships open, read November 2026). The home-ground test: the register read whole and the league's chapter record as described.