Photograph of Lockington Locks — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lockington Locks Historical Area

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 1969 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Miami Canal between Lockington and Washington Twshp., Lockington
When was it listed? December 1969
Category. district
National Register reference number. 69000147 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Lockington Locks Historical Area: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Miami River Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miami River Stone Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Piqua Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Rock Run Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rock Run Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Spring Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ernst Gravel Co Plant No 1 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pence Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pique Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Spring Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1914 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Piqua East quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Piqua Historical Area State Memorial	1.3 miles	1971
African Jackson Cemetery	2.7 miles	1982
York Rial House	2.7 miles	1986
Arrowston	3.0 miles	1980
Piqua High School	3.2 miles	1996
Fort Piqua Hotel	3.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami County	All 45 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.