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Lockport, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lockport town. It lies in ZIP code area 14094. It lies near The Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Lockport quadrangle. 20,876 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

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Lockport within Niagara County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lockport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lockport, surveyed 1897

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 12 of 29 shown

Every listing in Niagara County

Population over time

2 figures

Lockport fell from 21,165 to 20,876 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201021,165
202020,876-289 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

265 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Lockport between 2000 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 43 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined137
Arson/incendiarism43
Smoking33
Natural20
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lockport: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Lockport QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Simonds Steel Div/ Lockport, N.Y.IronUnknown

Every working recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockport in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 24 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 8 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1994Thunderstorm WindLockport1 hurt, $50,000no account filed
June 2013FloodLockport$800,000no account filed
July 2021Flash FloodSouth Lockport$100,000Road closures were reported due to flooding with vehicles stranded in the streets.
July 2021Flash FloodLockport$100,000Additional reports of widespread flooding were received with stranded vehicles in other portions of Lockport.
July 2006Flash FloodLockport$100,000no account filed
September 1998HailLockport$100,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowLockport$75,000no account filed
August 1994Tornado (F0)Lockport$50,000A tornado touched down in Lockport in Niagara County. The tornado was on the ground only for short lengths along the path. Damage was mainly confined to one property where three large trees were downed and windows were blown out of a garage.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindLockport$50,000no account filed
August 1994Tornado (F0)Lockport$50,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowLockport$40,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLockport$25,000no account filed
June 2008HailLockport$20,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLockport$20,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLockport$20,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLockport$20,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLockport$20,000no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodLockport$20,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000A tree fell onto a house on Prentice Street in Lockport.
August 2009Flash FloodLockport$15,000no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLockport$15,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLockport$10,000Multiple reports of trees and wires downed across the county.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Lockport$10,000Law enforcement reported power lines down.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLockport$10,000no account filed
October 2008Thunderstorm WindLockport$10,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLockport$10,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLockport$5,000Multiple reports were received of trees and powerlines down.
July 2003HailLockport$5,000no account filed
May 1998HailLockport$5,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLockport$2,000Trees and branches were reported down on Washburn Street between Oliver Street and Spalding Street.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindLockport$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLockport$1,000Trees and power lines were reported downed.
July 2021Flash FloodLockport-High Street was closed due to flooding.
July 2021Flash FloodLockport-Market Street was flooded and closed.
July 2021Flash FloodSouth Lockport-A state of emergency was issued that included a travel ban due to widespread flooding in Niagara County.
August 2019HailLockport-Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
July 2021HailSouth Lockport-no account filed
July 2021HailSouth Lockport-no account filed
July 2021HailSouth Lockport-no account filed
July 2021HailLockport-no account filed
August 2019HailLockport-no account filed
July 2014HailLockport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Lockport1.5 miles28
Shooktown1.6 miles28
Carlisle Gardens1.9 miles28
Highland Park2.0 miles28
Ridgelea Heights2.3 miles28
Nottingham Estates2.7 miles28
Hickory Corners3.5 miles27
Lockport Junction3.5 miles27

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 LockportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1077109The 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 955783. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.