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Decennial, whole
The town in twelve countings. The town's first separate decennial return reached is 1910; Howard's figure for the unincorporated town in 1900 is 350, and it is flagged below rather than folded into the series. The line, from the decennial series (U.S. Census of Population and Housing, as carried in the town's reference record), with 2020 confirmed at Public Law 94-171 strength: 1910, 227 (corroborated by Bowen's 1917 Indiana State Atlas town table) · 1920, 333 · 1930, 522 · 1940, 567 · 1950, 736 · 1960, 757 · 1970, 712 · 1980, 629 · 1990, 655 · 2000, 567 (corroborated in the census text itself: 567 people, 274 households) · 2010, 786 (786 people, 367 households) · 2020, 879 — confirmed three ways: INDOT's 2020 Indiana Populations list ("Lakeville 879"), the reference record's citation to the 2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), and the Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics carrier. Three anomalies are flagged, not explained. First: Howard's 1900 figure of 350 exceeds the first counted return, 1910's 227, by 123 — either the town shrank sharply in its incorporation decade or Howard estimated a wider village than the census place; Bowen's atlas likewise estimated the town at 275 for 1920 against a counted 333. Second: 2000 to 2010 gained 38.6 per cent (567 to 786), the line's largest gain, immediately after 1990 to 2000 lost 13.4 per cent, its largest decline. Third: 1940 and 2000 return the identical figure, 567, sixty years apart — a coincidence in the record, noted without meaning. Rival modern compilations print 878 and 799 for 2020; both stand in the register as conflicts of compilation, and neither displaces the PL figure.