Lakeville, California

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official_name = Lakeville, California
settlement_type = unincorporated community


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = California
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Sonoma
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timezone = PST
utc_offset = -8
timezone_DST = PDT
utc_offset_DST = -7
latd = 38 |latm = 11 |lats = 57 |latNS = N
longd = 122 |longm = 32 |longs = 50 |longEW = W
elevation_m = 3
elevation_ft = 10
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postal_code_type = ZIP code
postal_code = 94952
area_code = 707
blank_name = FIPS code
blank_info = 06-39878
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Lakeville is an unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States. It is located near the Petaluma River about convert|4|mi|km|0|lk=on|abbr=on southeast of Petaluma.

The main road is Lakeville Highway, which passes north-south through Lakeville on its way from State Route 116 to State Route 37.

Lakeville's name refers to Tolay Lake, about convert|2|mi|km|0|lk=on|abbr=on east of the town.

The Lakeville area was part of the "Petaluma Rancho Grant" deeded to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo by the Governor José Figueroa of Alta California in 1834. Settled by C. H. Bodwell, Lakeville became the terminus for a steamship route connecting San Francisco with Sonoma County. [cite web|url=http://users.ap.net/~chenae/socotown.html|title=Towns of Sonoma County|date=2008-01-21] In the 1870's, Lakeville was a stop on the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad. [cite book | author=Draper, Prudence and Lloyd | title=Images of America: Cotati | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | year=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7385-2873-0 | page=23]

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