The frame: a town in Union Township, on the Michigan Road

Frame as of November 2026

The town in its frame. Lakeville is a town under Indiana law in Union Township, St. Joseph County, in the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area. Its federal identifiers are GNIS feature ID 2396705 and FIPS place code 18-41670 (Census GEOID 1841670); the Census Bureau's 2020 Gazetteer file carries the GNIS number inside the row itself, as ANSI code 02396705, so the identifier stands at primary-file strength. Its ZIP code is 46536 — a postal area larger than the town, which prints here at its own bounds only: both of the town's schools carry Lakeville, 46536 addresses at sites outside the town's limits, and Union Township as a whole is served by four ZIPs. The town's survey frame is Township 36 North, Range 2 East, Second Principal Meridian; the original plat lies on the east half of the southeast quarter of section 34 and the west part of the southwest quarter of section 35 (the survey working is printed whole in the land section). The town's published position is carried in several readings, all printed, none silently preferred: the 2020 Gazetteer internal point is 41.528472° N, 86.275381° W; the 2010 Census point 41.528782, −86.275360; the 2000 Census point 41.523919, −86.272713; the GNIS point 41.528652, −86.273993; and the reference-article infobox 41.52861, −86.27444. Its land area is likewise carried by vintage: 0.631 square miles of land and 0.003 of water in the 2020 Gazetteer; 0.61 square miles, all land, in the 2010 Census; one modern directory prints 0.52 square miles of land. Its elevation prints 853 feet on the GNIS citation, 850 feet in a carrier that calls its figure an estimate, and 833 feet in a third. State Road 4 runs along the town's north edge; the Marshall County line closes the township to the south.