Lockport, Indiana

Coordinates: 40°41′57″N 86°34′25″W / 40.69917°N 86.57361°W / 40.69917; -86.57361
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Lockport
FIPS code
18-44550[2]
GNIS feature ID438202[1]

Lockport is an

Metropolitan Statistical Area
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History

A post office was established at Lockport in 1838, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904.

lock gates that one would have encountered on the Wabash and Erie Canal.[4][5]

Geography

Lockport is located less than half a mile northwest of the Wabash River. Burnetts Creek flows along the east side of town.

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lockport, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ "Carroll County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Odell, John Curtis (1916). History of Carroll County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions. B.F. Bowen. p. 80.
  5. . ...on the Wabash and Erie Canal and named for the locks here.

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