The county's only trail, outside the town: the boundary printed

Buffalo Run is told at county size because the county is its size — and this town's line is drawn through the telling so the two are never confused. St. Joseph County runs some twenty-five miles from its LaPorte County line to its Elkhart County line. The trail occupies the western share of that span: Olive, Lincoln, Warren and Greene township country, the New Carlisle and Crumstown settlements, the Bendix Woods ground, and the state-line tier of German and Clay townships' western reaches. Osceola occupies the opposite edge: a town of 2,590 people in Penn Township, hard against the Elkhart County line, its corporation line the county's eastern urban boundary. Between the trail's easternmost mapped reach — the South Bend County Club and Elbel Park country on South Bend's west side — and the Osceola town line lie the whole width of South Bend, all of Mishawaka, and the western half of Penn Township itself. No trail easement, staging area, club facility or groomed crossing of Buffalo Run stands in Penn, Harris, Madison or Centre township in the DNR's map or the club's publications, each read against the corporation line for this article. The trail is the county's, and county residents of this town may ride it as county residents; it is not this town's trail, it has never been routed here, and this section claims no mile of it for Osceola. The sentence the checklist wants printed is exactly that one, with the map as its proof.

Sources: Indiana DNR, Buffalo Run trail map, read against the Osceola corporation line and the county township map (route confined to the western townships; easternmost features at South Bend's west side); Michiana Trail Riders Coalition publications (no eastern facility or segment); U.S. Census (Town of Osceola population 2,590). Rights basis: published map and census facts; no image pulled.