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Land records — Roseland, Indiana (Pass R-8)
Ullery Cemetery — inside the town, settled whole
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Incorporated Places layer, 1 January 2026 vintage (GEOID 1865988); Indiana Geographic Information Office…
The question the ground has carried since the cemeteries pass — whether Ullery Cemetery lies inside the Town of Roseland — is settled: it does , proven by two independent instruments that agree. The boundary instrument: the…
The Roselawn course in the Recorder's record — the access structure, and the atlas plates
Indiana State Library plat holdings and Indiana Memory; St. Joseph County Recorder remote-access record; the 1875 county atlas and the 1911…
The plat limb of the Roselawn course was run at web strength, and what it yields is the access structure whole and the plates at the strength their carriers allow. The State Library holds the county's plat books in print and…
First federal entries on the townsite sections
General Land Office record (new system, July 2026) at shell strength; Indiana Archives and Records Administration, LaPorte–Winamac Land…
The tract-book question — who first entered the townsite's sections from the United States — stands open, but its settlers are no longer general directions; they are named instruments. The townsite sections are Sections 23 and…
The soil survey — identified, and the townsite association not established
USDA Soil Conservation Service, Soil Survey of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1977); the 2001 successor manuscript (IN141)
The printed soil survey of the county is now identified whole: the Soil Survey of St. Joseph County, Indiana , U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1977 , by Hezekiah Benton Jr. — held at page-image strength…
Registry searches still open
Indiana SHAARD (State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database); Howard, History of St. Joseph County (1880), page-image…
Two commissioned runs returned only their applications' shells, and they print as unexecuted — never as negatives. The SHAARD sweep : the state's historic-sites and cemeteries registry is a JavaScript application whose text fetch…
Land records: open questions
Stated plainly: the first federal entries on Sections 23 and 25, name by name (settlers: the state archives' LaPorte–Winamac entries series queried at section level, a browser-class run; the General Land Office tract books; the…