The plats as drawn: the 1875 plates read

HIGGINS, BELDEN & CO., PLATES OF WALKERTON AND WEST TROY

Twenty years after the filings, the atlas lets the two plats be seen — and they do not face the same way. The Walkerton plate (atlas p. 41, captioned "Town 35 North, Range 1 West") draws a town swung to the railroad: the Lake Erie & Western's predecessor line runs diagonally through the middle of the plat as its axis, and the streets parallel to it are lettered and named as avenues — the plate shows the avenue system running northwest–southeast with numbered cross streets cutting it at the diagonal's angle — while a flour mill stands at the plat's southeast end on the line, and a strip of lots along the northwest edge carries the Rupel name, the developer's ground described in the additions article. The West Troy plate (atlas p. 40) draws the opposite temperament: a cardinal grid — Washington Street north–south, Main Street east–west, South Street, Bridge Street — cut diagonally by the same railroad, with Pine Creek lettered across the plat's north edge and large acre lots in its south tier. The two geometries survive into the present town: the combined place still reads as a diagonal railroad plat joined to a square grid at the crossing, and the county parcel layer's lot fabric, where the envelope counts of this section's instrument article were taken, runs on the same two orientations. The atlas's Lincoln Township map (pp. 46–47) sets the pair in their sections — the town inset at the rail crossing near the township's center, on the ground Howard's descriptions fix in the northeast quarter of 23 and the southwest quarter of 24.