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FIVE-DIGIT GROUND · LINCOLN TOWNSHIP, THE LAKE COUNTRY, AND TWO MORE COUNTIES
Beyond the town line, the register's Walkerton continues across the township's farm roads, the lake subdivisions of three counties, and the county line roads, and it is printed here at the same size, sorted honestly: these are mailing seats in the 46574 delivery area, not town organizations, and their wholes belong to their home ground when those builds come. The fire ring prints first because it is public service in nonprofit form: the Koontz Lake–Oregon Township Volunteer Fire Dept at 7784 N State Road 23 (ruled May 2021) — Oregon Township is Starke County ground, and the department is that county's to tell whole when its turn comes; the Lincoln Township Volunteer Fire Inc. at 7982 E State Road 4 (ruled April 2023) — the register's newest fire line, seated on township ground east of the town, printed beside the town's own fire-protection-territory record in the government leg without merging the two, the register line being a corporation's seat and the territory the town code's creation; and the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary Inc. care of Barbara A. Kirby at 72353 Walkerton Trl (ruled October 1973), at pointer to the wars leg. The lake country adds its own: the Koontz Lake Association Inc. (Box 25; ruled September 2014; $100,000-and-over bands), the Koontz Lake Missionary Church (8044 N State Road 23; ruled November 1969), the Fish Lake Community Conservation Club Inc. (7873 E State Road 4; ruled July 2017) — Fish Lake is LaPorte County ground — and the Highland Park Beach Club Inc. care of Gerald Weber at 8017 N Edgewater Dr (ruled June 2015), a swimming club of the lake subdivisions.
The ring's working organizations print at line size. The labor movement's register presence is a row of locals seated at officers' homes, as it is across the county's small towns: the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees care of Matthew Rust at 206 Norway Spruce Ln (ruled July 1966) — a railroad brotherhood on the ground of a railroad town; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers care of Kevin Lowe at 18171 W 4th Rd (ruled August 1940); the National Association of Letter Carriers at the post office itself (ruled September 1944); and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association care of Frances Raderstorf at 69497 State Road 23 (ruled October 1963). The farm and animal ring: the American North Country Cheviot Sheep Association Inc. care of its secretary at 10506 S 875 E (ruled July 1992), a national breed association seated at a ring farm; the Indiana Paint Horse Club at 3961 S State Road 104 (ruled August 1998); the St. Joseph County 4-H Rabbit and P Poultry Club at 69012 Tamarack Rd (ruled September 2016), the county 4-H's species club at a township address; and the Young American Bowling Alliance Inc. care of Michael Krzyzewski at 11044 E Circle Ave (ruled August 1999). The hereditary and memorial ring: the Tippecanoe River Wythougan DAR care of Ellen C. Hummel at 16374 W 2B Rd (ruled September 2014) — a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter carrying two river names at a township seat (the register's mirror classifies the line under an incongruous religious heading, a mirror artifact printed here as a caution and not followed); the Morris Cemetery Association Incorporated (RR 11 Box 208; classified Burial Association; ruled December 1991), at pointer to the cemeteries leg; the Friends of Hoosier Gunswingers care of Rudy Adams at 20112 W 3B Rd (ruled January 2018), a safety-education body; the 21st Century Rep Squad care of Susan Lowry Litchfield at 3100 Plymouth LaPorte Trl (ruled January 2008), classified to legal services; the Lutheran Womens Missionary League at 4810 N Underwood Rd (ruled September 1965) and the Womens Aglow Fellowship care of Carol Pontius at 26181 Stanton Rd (ruled September 1973), at pointer to the Religion section; and the Trustees of Purdue University, twice at 2347 Union Rd (both ruled June 2013, one classified to education and one to youth development–agricultural) — the county's Extension ground in corporate form, the 4-H system's landlord in the register, printed as the register prints it. (The Gunswingers name is a firearms safety-education body; it has no connection to this build's Swingers leg, whose subject is a different record entirely.)
The ring's charities and churches close the census at pointer size, their wholes in their owning legs: the Family Bible Fellowship Inc. (3169 N Redwood Rd; ruled September 1988), the Teegarden First Brethren Church (16518 1st Rd; ruled April 1964), the Power House LaPorte (122 Clark St; ruled March 2022) and the Sasown Ministries International Ltd (1003 Harmson Street; ruled July 2008) — religion's; St. Patrick's stands in the inner ring above with the schools; and the ring's two duplicate PTA lines — the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers Inc., twice at 805 Washington St, both ruled December 1988, one care of Lisa Sleek, Trea — which the schools leg reads against its own ground, printed here as the register's doubled state. Sixty-four lines in all: a chamber and a development corporation, a Legion post in four lines, a Catholic council, a Masonic lodge in the paper if not the register, Lions in three lines, Odd Fellows in two, a pantry, two foundations from 2023, and a long tail of locals, clubs, churches and trusts at officers' kitchen tables — the organized life of a town of 2,096 and its countryside, counted whole.
Principal sources: IRS exempt-organizations register, "Walkerton, IN" (read November 11, 2026) — entries as itemized; this build's government leg (the fire protection territory), cemeteries leg (Morris Cemetery), Religion section (the ring congregations).