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THE TOWN'S AREA, BY VINTAGE, WITH THE BOUNDARY DISCIPLINE PRINTED
The town's measured area is a series, and it must be read as one. Chapman's 1880 area table gives the incorporated footprint as it stood three years after incorporation: the town of Walkerton, 135 acres. The 1990 census's comparative table (CPH-2-16) gives the town's land area as 3.8 square kilometers — 1.5 square miles — in the 1990 boundary. The 2010 census returned 1.96 square miles, a figure the Story of Walkerton section prints as a measurement vintage rather than a boundary change the record shows. The 2020 Gazetteer gives 1.899 square miles, all land; the current TIGERweb vintage measures 4,963,235 square meters, about 1.92 square miles. Read together, the course shows one true boundary event — the enlargement between the 1990 and 2000 censuses, which carries the town from 1.5 to about 1.9 square miles and rides under the population peak the Population leg prints for 2000 — and a run of measurement differences around it that are not annexations. The ordinance-by-ordinance annexation course that would date and place each taking is a town-records item this history could not reach; the town's ordinance book and the county's recorded annexation filings are its named settlers, carried in this build's note. What prints here is the measured course, at the strength the censuses carry it.