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South 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. The Survey maps it on the Lockport quadrangle. 9,355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

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

On record in South 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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

277 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of South Lockport between 2000 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 21 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/undetermined144
Arson/incendiarism43
Smoking36
Natural21
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
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 South 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

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Lockport in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodSouth Lockport$100,000Road closures were reported due to flooding with vehicles stranded in the streets.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Lockport$10,000Law enforcement reported power lines down.
July 2021Flash FloodSouth Lockport-A state of emergency was issued that included a travel ban due to widespread flooding in Niagara County.
July 2021HailSouth Lockport-no account filed
July 2021HailSouth Lockport-no account filed
July 2021HailSouth Lockport-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
Lockport1.5 miles28
Shooktown1.9 miles28
Carlisle Gardens3.0 miles28
Lockport Junction3.1 miles27
Raymond3.4 miles27
Highland Park3.4 miles28
Nottingham Estates3.7 miles28
Ridgelea Heights3.7 miles28

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 South LockportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461948The 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 965810. 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.