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THE COUNTY'S COUNTERS · BOUNDARY-PRINTED — WALKERTON'S OWN AT FULL SIZE
Three cities have carried this county's licensing across the modern era, and Walkerton is the smallest of them — the only one of the county's branch towns that is not a city, and the only branch in the county seated outside the metropolitan core.
The county seat's branch is the system's oldest pole here. The Bureau's own releases of October 2014 name the South Bend branch at 623 South St. Joseph Street, downtown, as a full-service branch. A second South Bend seat stands on the city's south side at 1139 East Ireland Road, named in the Bureau's current branch list, as mirrored in November 2026, as the "South Bend BMV Branch + Kiosk." The current status of the St. Joseph Street seat is a printed conflict in the sibling runnings — directories still carry it while the Bureau's current list names Ireland Road — and it is carried whole there; the Bureau's own list, read directly, settles it, and South Bend's running owns the succession either way.
The counter the county's east side uses stands in Mishawaka, at 2544 Miracle Lane, just off the Grape Road corridor. The Bureau's branch record, read in November 2026, lists the Mishawaka branch active at that address — Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — with a BMV Connect Center at the same address open twenty-four hours a day, opened January 17, 2019, the second Connect Center in the state.
Walkerton's own seat, at 302 Roosevelt Road, is the far counter — the county's southwest outpost, a part-time agency where the other two are full-service branches. Its course is this section's whole, and the articles that follow take it in order: the patronage system that planted it, the plate record that rode out of it, the licensing done across its counter, the state's two formal attempts to be rid of it, and what stands on Roosevelt Road now.