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THE OPEN SERIES
The state of the series: The population record prints the city's land area at two dated points — 41.46 square miles in 2010 and 41.98 in 2020, from the Census Bureau's gazetteer — and names the want: a mid-century series, so the annexation story the government record tells in ordinances could be read in acres. The decennial state volumes do not carry the figure for places: the 1970 Indiana part, checked table by table, gives land area for counties only (its Table 9), and its places tables give population and annexed-area population, never area. The settling sources for the mid-century city areas are the Bureau's County and City Data Book editions — 1952, 1962 and 1972 — which tabulate land area for cities of the first rank; they are the named pull, in the state library and university collections, when a future pass works this series. The one hard mid-series point the record already holds is an ordinance, not an area: Ordinance 5137-70 of 12 January 1970, the LaSalle Park annexation of 176.9 acres, in the government record.
Sources:
- U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1970 Census of Population, Vol. I, Part 16, Indiana — contents and Tables 5–9 checked (land area printed for counties only).
- The population and government records of this history — the gazetteer points, the total-area figure, and Ordinance 5137-70.