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ARC-1 DUG · THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND STATE DHPA RECORDS
Walkerton holds exactly one National Register listing, and it is the whole downtown: the Walkerton Historic District, entered November 17, 2021, reference number 100007175. The listing's geography is the original town in one breath — roughly bounded by Michigan, Indiana, and Van Buren streets and the Nickel Plate Railroad, about four blocks covering most of the original plat — and the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology's summary gives the district its measures: a period of significance of 1885–1967, areas of significance in architecture and commerce, about three dozen buildings, and a stylistic census of Italianate and Queen Anne commercial and residential work with examples of the modern movement, strung along Roosevelt Road, the main commercial artery and U.S. Highway 6 itself, with losses to fire and demolition noted in the streetscape's own record. The listing is the town's only entry among St. Joseph County's 102 National Register listings — a completeness that cuts both ways: the district carries the whole of the town's recognized historic fabric in one boundary, and no individual Walkerton building stands separately listed. What stands behind the listing is the survey record, and there the item prints its residue: the rated-but-unlisted properties of the Indiana survey (SHAARD) are not readable from this seat, and the SHAARD public GIS with the county survey report (Indiana Landmarks / DHPA) stands named as the settler for the survey-level register.
Principal sources: National Park Service, National Register record 100007175 (SG100007175); Indiana DHPA, National Register summary for the Walkerton Historic District (February 16, 2022 posting); the NPS county listing for St. Joseph County (102 listings, current through September 18, 2026 postings).
One conflict in this build is resolved here: a count of the county's Register listings run for the Heritage leg returns no Walkerton entry. The nomination record itself — this district's listing of 17 November 2021, reference 100007175 — governs; the count is the counter's miss, and the district stands.