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THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
What this section could not settle is named, with the source that settles each item, so no gap here is silent:
GAP-W10-BMV-1 — The branch's opening and earliest seats. The Bureau's record reached documents the branch at 302 Roosevelt Road from 2014 and the town paper documents it in 1988; its opening year, its first seat, and any moves before Roosevelt Road are not in the record reached. The 1943 bill's outlying-branch clause proves the tier, not this branch. Settlers: the Walkerton Independent / Independent-News full run (Hoosier State Chronicles; the society's newspaper microfilm, 1886–1996); the Polk county directories across the decades; the BMV Commission's branch records; the South Bend Tribune files.
GAP-W10-BMV-2 — The branch's managers. For 1969–1992 the manager is settled in this section's W-11 addendum below — Myrna R. Daube, whose tenure ends the year of the state assumption; before 1969 and after 1992, no manager of the Walkerton branch is named in any record reached. The county's patronage-era roster stands as a named gap in both sibling runnings (Granger's GAP-BMV-2; Osceola's GAP-O10-BMV-2); Walkerton's own holders are this section's share of the same county gap, and the more pointed for being one room's succession. Settlers: the town paper's full run; the Tribune and News-Times files; Polk directories; the BMV Commission's minutes and appointment records.
GAP-W10-BMV-3 — The hearing file and the closure's exact day (the outcome itself is settled). The Bureau's October 2021 consolidation notice and hearing (October 13, 2021, at the town library) are documented first-hand, and its 2021 Annual Report — carried in this section's W-11 addendum — counts Walkerton among its 2021 closures; the hearing's testimony, any town resolution, and any final Bureau order are not in the record reached. The building's vacation by the 2022 Hiler gift bounds the Roosevelt Road counter's end to the window after October 13, 2021 and before the gift; the exact last day is unsettled. Settlers: the Bureau's public-hearing file (comments were taken at bmvpublichearing@bmv.in.gov); the Tribune's and the town paper's coverage of October–November 2021; the town's minute books.
GAP-W10-BMV-4 — The surviving presence's seat and hours. The Bureau's wait-times application and the mirrored branch record carry a Walkerton agency on Roosevelt Road into November 2026 — with walk-ins, appointments and a cash-accepting BMV Connect kiosk — without a street number or hours at the strength reached; the Bureau's branch-location list is script-driven and returned no readable text. Whether the agency sits in a successor seat on Roosevelt Road, and whether the kiosk stands at the old building, a successor seat, or elsewhere in town, is unsettled. Settlers: the Bureau's branch record read directly (the branch-location list and the Connect kiosk locator); the town's record.
GAP-W10-BMV-5 — Walkerton's branch letter. The 1999–2003 branch-letter record reached gives South Bend's letter (E) only. A plate reading 71 followed by Walkerton's letter exists in the county's garages by the thousands; the letter itself is read off them or off the references' full tables. Settlers: the plate references' full branch-letter tables; surviving plates. The same gap stands for Mishawaka in the sibling runnings.
GAP-W10-BMV-6 — The 1950 plate codes. The plate-history record gives St. Joseph County's 1950 two-letter codes as BB–BH; the ShopLicensePlates key prints BB–BK and BN. Printed whole in the plate article, unharmonized — a county gap carried jointly by all three runnings. Settlers: surviving 1950-issue plates; the Bureau's issuance records.
GAP-W10-BMV-7 — First registrations and first licenses at documented size. The county's plate-allocation ceilings (69,993 under the 1950 scheme; 239,976 under the 1963 scheme) are printed from the plate-history record; actual registration counts for the county — and any count separable for Lincoln Township — stand in records not reached. Settlers: the Secretary of State's annual reports (registrations by county); the Bureau's annual reports.
GAP-W10-BMV-8 — The Roosevelt Road building's own record. The building's construction date, builder and first occupant are not in the record reached; whether the branch was its first tenant or a successor in an older commercial room is unsettled. Its street number prints in conflict (302 in the Bureau's two documents and the town's museum listing; 305 on the society's own page) with the county parcel record as settler. Settlers: the St. Joseph County assessor's parcel record and GIS (Beacon/Map Applications); the county deed record; the town paper.
Tested negative — a second branch seat in town in the documented era. Searched: the Bureau's notices, releases and branch record reached (2014–2026); the society's and the town's own pages; the directories as mirrored. Every Bureau document that names a Walkerton seat names 302 Roosevelt Road and no other; no second seat, satellite, or separate testing station in the town appears in any of it. The negative prints at that strength for the documented era; the pre-1988 seats are GAP-W10-BMV-1, not this item. Settlers for any contrary claim: as in GAP-W10-BMV-1.
The county gaps ride along.Joseph Street against 1139 East Ireland Road in current directories) is carried whole in the sibling runnings and settles in South Bend's. This section prints both at pointer size only.