Lakewood

City in southwestern California, just north of Long Beach and 21 km/13 mi southeast of central Los Angeles; population (1990) 73,600. It was developed in the 1950s to house workers at Long Beach aircraft plants, and remains essentially a working middle-class suburb.

Lakewood

City in north-central Colorado, a residential and commercial suburb adjacent to Denver; population (2000) 144,100. The Denver Federal Center is here.

The community boomed in the 1960s and was incorporated in 1969.

Lakewood

Township in east-central New Jersey, on the Metedeconk River, 23 km/14 mi southwest of Asbury Park; population (1990) 45,000. Set in a pine forest among small lakes, not far from the Atlantic coast, it has long been a popular health resort. Lakewood also produces furniture, plastics, doors and windows, weather instruments, clocks, and electronic components.

Lakewood was settled in 1800. It is home to Georgian Court College (1908), which has a noted aboretum and garden on the former Gould estate. The former Rockefeller estate is a state reserve.

Lakewood

City in northeastern Ohio, on Lake Erie, 8 km/5 mi west of Cleveland, of which it is a suburb; population (1990) 59,700. Largely residential, it also manufactures sheet metal, conveying equipment, nuts and bolts, castings, dry batteries, and other products.

It has a large civic auditorium, and the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival is held here.

Lakewood

Community in west-central Washington, on Steilacoom Lake, 10 km/6 mi southwest of Tacoma; population (1990) 58,400. A residential suburb, it is also home to McChord Air Force Base, to the south.