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THE TOWN AS IT STANDS, NOVEMBER 2026
The present town is the junction's heir, incorporated and self-governing on its 1877 order: Walkerton governs itself in the Indiana town form its own codified ordinances print — a town council of five members, elected both by ward and at large under Indiana Code 36-5-2-5, the town divided into wards by ordinance first passed in December 1982 and amended by Ordinance 2002-08 of 3 September 2002, the fifth ward being the whole town for its at-large member — and an elected clerk-treasurer as the town's clerk and fiscal officer (Town of Walkerton, Code of Ordinances, § 11.01, carrying the 2005 Code §§ 12.01–12.08). It keeps its offices, its police and fire protection, its streets and its park on the 1.90 square miles of the combined plats, at the crossing of U.S. 6 and State Road 23, with State Road 104 ending at its west edge; two freight railroads cross in it, CSX east–west and the Elkhart & Western north–south line (Norfolk Southern’s road, leased and operated by the Elkhart & Western since 2010), over the lifted belt line's diamond. The municipal-ownership thread Howard printed in 1907 — the town's own water works and electric light plant — is the inheritance the Government leg traces to its present holders of record; the current officeholders by name stand in the succession article below at the strength the record reached. The frames of trade, worship, schooling and memory that fill this skeleton are the legs that follow; the Story of Walkerton section's last two beats are the count itself, and the succession.