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To 1958 and after
From North Liberty the fair moved on, and the county's fair never again stood in this town. The fair's own history continues the sequence: the fair was moved to Lakeville, where livestock was housed in tents and home-economics projects in the elementary building; it used the Union Township High School and grounds, where in 1941 a committee formed to purchase lottery calves and admission was ten cents for adults and children over twelve; the Lakeville Lions took over the fair's local management; and the fair then moved to Playland Park in South Bend, was incorporated under the name St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, and at last bought its permanent ground — forty acres at Ironwood and Jackson in South Bend, in the fair board's telling, with two buildings raised and rides by the Gooding Amusement Company. The fair's present form stands there: the 2026 fair ran 3–11 July at 5117 South Ironwood Road, on grounds the county visitor bureau describes as eighty-seven acres. North Liberty's share since the rotation has been participation, not hosting: its 4-H families exhibit in South Bend, and the Lakeville Lions' fair food booth appears in the Lions district newsletters as a fundraiser — South Bend's institution, this town's exhibitors, printed at exactly that boundary.