Lockport | |
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 Carroll County's location in Indiana | |
  Lockport Location in Carroll County | |
| Coordinates: 40°41′57″N86°34′25″W / 40.69917°N 86.57361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Indiana |
| County | Carroll |
| Township | Adams |
| Elevation | 571 ft (174 m) |
| ZIP code | 47926 |
| FIPS code | 18-44550 [2] |
| GNIS feature ID | 438202 [1] |
Lockport is an unincorporated community in Adams Township, Carroll County, Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
A post office was established at Lockport in 1838, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. [3] The birth of the town, and its name, are related to the set of lock gates that one would have encountered on the Wabash and Erie Canal. [4] [5]
Lockport is located less than half a mile northwest of the Wabash River. Burnetts Creek flows along the east side of town.
Carroll County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 20,306. The county seat is Delphi.
Delphi is a city in and the county seat of Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Located twenty minutes northeast of Lafayette, it is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,893 at the 2010 census.
Francisco is the fifth largest town and seventh largest community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States. A town in Center Township, the population was 469 at the 2010 census and was founded in 1851. Local tradition says the town was named for its first settler, a Spanish laborer working on the Wabash and Erie Canal who built a shack in the area. It is part of the Evansville, Indiana, Metropolitan Area.
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Lockport is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 20,529 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from the series of canal locks on the Erie Canal. The locks lift boats from the lowland of Lake Ontario past the Niagara Escarpment.
Lockport is both a city and the town that surrounds it in Niagara County, New York, United States. The city is the Niagara county seat, with a population of 21,165 according to 2010 census figures, and an estimated population of 20,305 as of 2019.
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The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with access from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Over 460 miles long, it was the longest canal ever built in North America.
Adams Township is one of fourteen townships in Carroll County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 516 and it contained 209 housing units.
Pittsburg is an unincorporated community in Tippecanoe Township, Carroll County, Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Deer Creek Township is one of fourteen townships in Carroll County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,571 and it contained 1,970 housing units.
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Mahon is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carroll County, Indiana.
...on the Wabash and Erie Canal and named for the locks here.
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