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Welcome to Locktown ...

Locktown is located in Hunterdon County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Locktown, you might consider that their post office opened in 1856.

Locktown is 480 feet [146 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Locktown lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Websites for Locktown ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.hunterdon-chamber.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Locktown, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Locktown ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Locktown.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Locktown. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Locktown.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Locktown. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Locktown.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Locktown. See our Newspapers Page for Locktown.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Locktown ...

Looking for more information about Locktown? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Locktown, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Locktown.

Adding Locktown to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Locktown in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Locktown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Locktown post office opened in 1856. The Locktown post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Locktown.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New Jersey's counties, including Hunterdon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Locktown - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/