BlockLockport, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47926. It stands on Little Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burrows quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.
On record in Lockport
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 4 records
Burris House and Potawatomi Springlisted 1977
Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert #100listed 2002- Little Rock Creek Stone Arch Bridgelisted 2021
- Lockport Wabash River Bridgelisted 2025
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Burrows quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
182 words on this townshipHistory of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Adams Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
1835. Lockport was the only village in the township. It was located on the Wabash and Erie canal, and for many years a large amount of business was transacted at this place. John Newman built a saw-mill on Rattlesnake creek in 1834. and a few years later added a flouring-mill. A number of saw-mills were built by various persons.
Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockport in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | $3,000 | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | $2,000 | Trees of unknown size downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | $2,000 | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | - | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Lockport | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Lockport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6665730 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438202. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.