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Welcome to Lakewood ...

Lakewood is located in Hill Country.

Lakewood is located in Travis County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lakewood, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1895.

Time Zone: Lakewood lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The telephone area code for Lakewood: (512)

Communities Also Named Lakewood ...

While we believe that this Lakewood is located in Travis County, we know of another 3 Texas communities named Lakewood. Those communities are located in the following counties: Dallas, Harris and Orange County.

Beyond Texas, there are 96 communities that are also named Lakewood - they are located in Alabama (6), Arkansas (2), California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida (3), Georgia (4), Illinois (6), Indiana (3), Iowa (2), Louisiana (2), Maine (2), Maryland (2), Massachusetts, Michigan (8), Minnesota, Mississippi (3), New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina (5), Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), Rhode Island, South Carolina (9), Tennessee (4), Utah (2), Vermont, Virginia (9), Washington (3) and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lakewood.

Adding Lakewood to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lakewood in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Lakewood was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Lakewood post office opened in 1895.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lakewood.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lakewood. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Travis County: www.co.travis.tx.us/

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Travis, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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