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The Story of Lakeville section is the lakes: Riddles, 77 acres, surveyed 16 July 2019; Pleasant, 29 acres, surveyed 19 June 2008. Both bathymetries are Indiana DNR's (the Pleasant Lake acreage conflict, C48 — 29 DNR against 27 Lake-Link — prints whole in its owning files). The fish-community record stands at press-of-record strength: the South Bend Tribune's 2006 account of DNR biologists surveying both lakes against a 2003 prior survey — "around 900 bass ranging from little guys to 20 inches," the lakes "about 110 acres combined" and "connected by a channel," public access on Pleasant and Riddles access for Lakeville Conservation Club members only. The Michigan namesake is excluded in print: the detailed fishery report for "Pleasant Lake, St. Joseph County" (Michigan DNR, 2015) is the 262-acre lake near Three Rivers, Michigan — none of it is imported. No fish kill on either lake is reported in any carrier reached, and no carp or invasive-species record attaches to either; those negatives print at search strength. The marsh-country wildlife stands at county pointer only — the osprey's restored distribution includes this county, and the county's first successful bald-eagle nests are South Bend's and Potato Creek's records, not Union Township's, and print as such. One documented livestock thread: Michael Carrico of Lakeville, a National Junior Angus Association Recognition Program Gold winner (Angus Journal, February 1988) with a show-and-test career from 1981 — a documented record, not a single named champion animal; none was reached. The township species baseline is a named gap (settler: Chapman's township chapter read for fauna; the full survey species lists, the state fisheries dataset's lake-level rows).