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The test the banked set had never run returns a positive at district size, and it corrects the presumption the question was asked under: searched against the National Park Service's record and the state preservation office's listings for St. Joseph County — 102 properties and districts on the county list, complete through the Park Service's postings of September 18, 2026 — Walkerton holds exactly one entry, and it is not a house. The Walkerton Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 17 November 2021 (reference SG100007175), roughly bounded by Michigan, Indiana and Van Buren Streets and the Nickel Plate Railroad: about four blocks covering most of the original plat, some three dozen buildings, significant for Architecture and Commerce with a period of significance of 1885–1967 — in the state office's words, "the town's historic commercial architecture and its best examples of civic architecture." At Register size, neither more nor less: no individual Walkerton or Lincoln Township property stands on the county list beside the district; no National Historic Landmark stands in Walkerton or its township (the county's landmark count of one belongs to the South Bend entries); and the 1885 Frash house at 413 Michigan Street — the checklist's named candidate — carries no individual listing in any record reached. Whether the Frash house stands inside the district's boundary as a contributing resource is a question the nomination's inventory, not its summary, answers: the district as described is the commercial and civic core, and the house is a residence on the boundary street's 400 block. That residue is named, with its settler: the district's nomination form and resource inventory, held in the Indiana SHPO's SHAARD database under the district's record. One trap on the way in is printed so it stays shut: the National Register's own gallery holds a "Walkerton" listed in 1984 (NRIS 84000676) — an 1825 brick tavern on Mountain Road in Henrico County. That is Walkerton, Virginia, behind the third of the Sources leg's four doors; it documents nothing about this town, and Indiana's Walkerton enters the Register only in 2021, as a district.
Sources: National Park Service, National Register weekly list of November 19, 2021 and pending list of October 16, 2021 (Walkerton Historic District, SG100007175, listed 11/17/2021; the boundary as stated). Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology, new-listings summary of February 16, 2022 (the district: 1885–1967; Architecture, Commerce; about four blocks, most of the original plat, about three dozen buildings). National Register listings in St. Joseph County, Indiana, read whole (102 listings through September 18, 2026; the district the sole Walkerton entry). NPS NPGallery record NRIS 84000676 (the Henrico County, Virginia "Walkerton" — the trap, printed to be retired). Settler named for the Frash house's contributing status: the nomination inventory in Indiana SHAARD.