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Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co. (1875); M. W. Stokes county map (Library of Congress 2013593163); George A. Ogle & Co., Standard Atlas (1911); B. F. Bowen & Co., Bowen's Indiana State Atlas (1917); ISL county maps guide
The landowner record runs in a line of printed atlases. First stands a map, not an atlas: M. W. Stokes's Map of St. Joseph Co. (1863), engraved and printed by Charles Shober — a cadastral sheet naming the owners on the Clay Township sections half a century before the town, with insets for the county's then-places and none for Roseland, which did not exist. (The Library of Congress record dates the sheet 1863 in its publication field and 1866 in its dates field and generated citations; the pair prints whole as conflict C16, and 1863 — the copyright year — is the form this build cites.) The 1875 atlas (Higgins, Belden & Co., 116 pp.) is the township's fullest early picture: the Clay plate (p. 62), the settlers' footnote, and the township directory (p. 91) — good for names and first-settlement claims, bad for its plates, whose lettering the machine text cannot read; it is used from page images or not at all. The county plat-atlas line then runs to Ogle's Standard Atlas (1911) — the direct successor the earlier passes had not named — and the Hixson (c. 1920) and Sidwell (1925–41) plat books behind it; all predate or straddle incorporation and show the Roselawn-era landscape, not the town's plats. A correction the record forced: "Bowen's 1917 atlas" is a state atlas (B. F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis) — one sketch page and one county-scale map for St. Joseph County, not a county plat atlas; its value here is its population table, where the newly incorporated town first appears in an atlas list, as an estimated figure and never as a census count. Last, a commercial carrier of the marshal era: B. P. Drake's Know South Bend and Mishawaka… Clay township street directory, Roseland… (Car-tel Maps, c. 1954), which treats the town separately in its prime.