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The banked build carried this trade for exactly one book — the 1875 atlas, read whole in Sources and Neighborhoods.Joseph County holdings list, the catalogue of record for the county's maps, atlases and plat books, with the land-ownership map tradition behind it. The run, makers named:
The wall-map-to-atlas transition opens with the 1863 Stokes map of #136 and the 1875 land-ownership printing the indexed county land ownership collections carry beside it. Then the subscription atlas proper: 1875, An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Higgins, Belden & Co., Chicago — the banked book, reprinted by Selby Publishing of Kokomo in 1986. 1895, the Standard Atlas of St. Joseph County, carried in the public library's and the indexed-collections' records beside the 1875 (its full title-page record stands at catalogue strength here). 1911, the Standard Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana, including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, published by George A. Ogle & Co., Chicago — the second great subscription house in the county's trade, a generation after Higgins, Belden. The plat-book trade then succeeds the atlas trade, and its houses are smaller and more numerous: W. W. Hixson & Co. of Rockford, Illinois, whose plat books of Indiana counties the State Library dates to about 1920 — with the catalogue's own warning that its maps incorporating the US highway numbering were probably published after 1 October 1926, the maps themselves carrying no dates — and again as the 1942 Atlas of St. Joseph County. Sidwell Studio of Lombard, Illinois, whose county plat books the library dates 1925?–1941?, in 92 parts, likewise undated on their faces. County Plat & Directory Co. of La Porte, Indiana, with the county's Official Farm Plat Book and Directory of about 1966 — the trade come home to the next county. Rockford Map Publishers, with the Triennial Atlas & Plat Book of 1970. Town & Country Publishing Co. of La Porte, with the county plat book of 1981 and, as Town & Country Publications, the Official Plat Book of 1990 (copyright 1989). And the modern house: Athentic, Inc. of La Porte, whose St. Joseph County plat books the library lists in a numbered-edition run — the 2000 plat book as its 5th edition (county highway map, city street maps, index of owners), 2003 as 7th, 2010 as 11th, and 2014 as 13th — the subscription trade's direct descendant, sold by edition into the GIS age, after which the county's own parcel layer (Neighborhoods, run 11 November 2026) becomes the living plat book and the printed run's successor.
Two disciplines print with the run. First, county scale is not town scale: every book above is a county book in which Walkerton and Lincoln Township hold their township plates and village plats — the 1875 book's Lincoln Township plates (pp. 46–47) and town plates (pp. 40–41) are banked; the later books' Lincoln plates stand at catalogue strength here, not page-read, and no claim about any later book's Walkerton plate is made. Second, the trade's economics are the Sources leg's standing caution, which governs the whole run: these were subscription works — presence bought, absence proving nothing — from 1875 to the last Athentic edition.
Closure: DUG — the run carried from 1875 to 2014 at catalogue strength with makers named at every step (Higgins, Belden; Ogle; Hixson; Sidwell; County Plat & Directory; Rockford Map Publishers; Town & Country; Athentic), the GIS succession pointed to the banked parcel instrument.
Sources: Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County maps, atlases and plat books holdings list, read whole for this section (1875 Higgins, Belden, with 1986 Selby reprint; 1911 Ogle Standard Atlas; Hixson plat books c.1920 and 1942 Atlas, with the post-1926 numbering note; Sidwell Studio 1925?–1941?; County Plat & Directory Co. c.1966; Rockford Map Publishers, Triennial Atlas 1970; Town & Country 1981 and c.1989/1990; Athentic, Inc. 2000 5th ed., 2003 7th, 2010 11th, 2014 13th); LDS Genealogy / FamilySearch map-records list for St. Joseph County (Standard Atlas records of 1895 and 1911; land ownership maps 1863, 1875, 1895, 1911), read for this section; Sources and Neighborhoods legs of this build.