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2020 Census gazetteer row (the named frame); Town Code §11.01

Roseland is an incorporated town in Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. In the federal frame it is GNIS feature 2396890, FIPS place code 18-65988 (GEOID 1865988), legal/statistical area description 43 (town), functional status A (active). The 2020 Census gazetteer gives the town 0.385 square miles of land and no water area and an internal point at 41.717607° N, −86.250592° W — about 2.8 miles south of the Indiana–Michigan line, in Section 23, Township 38 North, Range 2 East of the Second Principal Meridian (the survey derivation is carried whole in the land fragment). The town's 2020 census population is 854

The town's own codified history (Town Code §11.01) describes the place in its own words: "basically rectangular in shape, divided almost equally by U.S. Highway 31 (now called Dixie Highway, north and south), with approximately 1,200 feet of the town on each side of the highway for a total width of about 2,400 feet; the town is nearly 4,600 feet in length and is located in Clay Township, approximately one mile north of South Bend." The same section styles the corridor the town's whole setting: when it was incorporated the place was "a farming community located at the northern limits of the proposed extensions of the city of South Bend and in the path of the proposed business and industrial expansion." The town hall stands at 200 Independence Drive (telephone 574-272-6485 in the town's own letterhead), and Roseland addresses carry South Bend's ZIP code, 46637 — the town has no ZIP of its own; the code records that city mail delivery began in 1927, the town never having been annexed into South Bend.

The town's neighbors, stated at the strength the record carries them. It adjoins the northern edge of the South Bend country in Clay Township, with the Notre Dame community — an unincorporated census-designated place (2020 population 7,234) holding the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College and Holy Cross College, lying between Clay and Portage townships — immediately to its east and southeast. The reference record's lead styles it "the Gateway Town", for its position at the Notre Dame/South Bend exit of the Indiana Toll Road (Interstate 80/90), which crosses its northern end — a styling the stories pass's test finds reference-carried only, not proven as a town-adopted motto on any carrier reached (rl-sto-gateway).Indian Village, the county's other small Clay Township town (2020 population 118), stands about a mile east of Roseland at Roseland's own latitudeThe exact Roseland–South Bend boundary relation — the town code says "approximately one mile north of South Bend" — is likewise carried at that strength only.