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THE IRS REGISTER FOR THIS GROUND · READ NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The town's nonprofit sector is counted here from its own register, as this build's method requires: the Internal Revenue Service's exempt-organizations register, read for the place "Walkerton, Indiana" through the register's public mirror, carries sixty-four organizations under the Walkerton post office, with reported assets of $1,258,864 and reported income of $2,201,975 in the mirror's own sums. The register is read whole below — the sector named at register size, in two rings. What the register proves is a mailing seat and a federal exemption; what it cannot do is draw the town line. The 46574 post office serves Lincoln Township and far beyond it — west into LaPorte County's townships and south to Koontz Lake in Starke County's Oregon Township — and this build's own boundary record has already put register-style "Walkerton" seats in other counties: the Koontz Lake fire department of the register below is an Oregon Township, Starke County body, and the Fish Lake club's ground is LaPorte County's. A Walkerton address in the register is a Walkerton mailing, and the articles below sort by exactly that, no more.
Two conventions govern the printing. The register's dates are exemption ruling dates — the month and year the Service recognized the exemption — not founding dates, and they are printed as rulings; where a founding is claimed anywhere it is printed at its own source's strength. And the register's financial figures arrive in bands ($50,000+, $100,000+, $500,000+) from the filings it mirrors; they are printed as bands, never as audited numbers. Read under those conventions, the register gives the town something no directory ever gave it: a complete census of its organized civic life, from a veterans' post and a Catholic fraternal council ruled in the 1940s to a community foundation ruled in 2023. The register's doubled lines — two for the Legion at two addresses, two for the Lions at two care-of names, the PTA twice at one address, Purdue twice at one address — are printed in the ring articles as the register's own state, unmerged.
Principal sources: Internal Revenue Service, Exempt Organizations Business Master File, as mirrored at TaxExemptWorld, "Walkerton, IN" (64 organizations; read November 11, 2026); this build's boundary record for the Koontz Lake and Fish Lake ground.