Union Township Is In — the District Map Around Lakeville

district as of September 2023 boundaries · guide updated June 2026

Union Township taxes for the St. Joseph County Public Library — on the Indiana State Library's own current record, which settles LK-1's gap G-S7 for the library district. The State Library's Technical Guide for Library Redistricting (updated June 2026; service areas as of the end of the 2020 Census redistricting period, September 2023) states it verbatim in its by-county entry: "St. Joseph County Public Library serves eight townships by tax: Centre, Clay, German, Greene, Liberty, Portage, Union, and Warren." The system's own current Public Service Policies (§5.1.2, board-approved May 2026) state the same eight, and add the eligibility that reaches across this build's county line: individuals who attend or teach at a school in the Union-North United School Corporation or the John Glenn School Corporation are eligible for a Resident Card — a school-eligibility bridge that does not make any further township part of the taxing district. The rest of the county's map, at the size it bears on Lakeville: Harris and Penn townships tax for the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris library; Olive for New Carlisle & Olive Township; Lincoln for Walkerton-Lincoln Township; and Madison Township does not appear in the State Library's by-county entry as read — printed exactly so, its status a pointer gap that does not bear on Lakeville. Eight of thirteen townships, then; the two township branches of the system's south — North Liberty in Liberty Township, Lakeville in Union — both sit in-district by tax. The service population prints with its vintages, never merged: 170,799 of the county's 272,912 people (State Library record, 2020 census vintage); the system's own November 2026 rounding is "approximately 171,000," with about 554,000 items held, about 1.24 million physical circulations, and over 700,000 visits in 2025 (its ILS request for proposals); a 2022 case-study figure of 167,606 stands dated if used at all. Across the school corporation's other township, North Township in Marshall County, the library country is different soil: the Plymouth Public Library serves Plymouth and Center and West townships by tax and holds an annual contract for North and Polk townships, North Township residents taking a half-cost non-resident card part-prepaid by their trustee from limited funds — so a LaVille family on the Marshall side is not in this district at all, and reaches Lakeville's system, if at all, through the school-eligibility bridge above.