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THE PLAT COURSE AFTER THE ORIGINALS, ON HOWARD
Between the two originals, the town grew by addition, and Howard prints the run. Burk's addition to West Troy came first, on 27 April 1860. Then Jacob Rupel — the same Rupel the 1875 atlas's settler roster carries ("came into the county in 1837 and into Lincoln Tp. in 1863") — became the town's great subdivider: his first three additions were recorded together on 11 December 1868, his fourth on 2 July 1875, and his fifth on 23 January 1884. Dixon W. Place's first addition followed on 3 September 1887 (Howard, pp. 316–317). The pattern is the town's internal history in miniature: West Troy, the older plat, took the first addition; the ground between and around the plats filled under one settler-developer's hand across sixteen years; and by 1887 the combined footprint was substantially the town the twentieth century inherited. Additions after 1887 stand in the county's plat books and in the parcel layer's legal descriptions; their plat-by-plat roster at instrument strength is an owed item in this build's note, with the Recorder's plat books and a full parcel pull as its named settlers — the next article states plainly how far the parcel instrument got.