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A tested negative
No named village stands on or near the townsite in anything. The records searched are named, so the negative can be weighed: Chapman (1880), Union Township chapter, read whole — no village named; Howard (1907), the Union Township section and the Lakeville town section, read whole — no village named, the town's origin given as a travellers' rest place on the Michigan Road; the treaty texts as plotted for the south valley — the named villages of the instruments stand on the St. Joseph in the county's north and in the Elkhart country, and the reservation anchors of this ground's own cession, Flatbelly's and Seek's village, stand far east-southeast on Eel River; and the removal route record, whose named village, Chippeway on the Tippecanoe, is in Fulton County, south. The settler for a deeper test is named: the General Land Office field notes and plats for the townsite's congressional township and for Union Township generally, and the Indian Claims Commission record for the St. Joseph valley. Until those are read, the finding stands as printed: no village on this ground in the reached record — the same finding the sister build printed for North Liberty, reached here on Lakeville's own searches.