Do you know of Lockport ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lockport. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Lockport.
Our sources for Lockport (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Lockport other than they indicate that Lockport would be found somewhere in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1840 and closed in 1850.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Lockport ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Lockport.
There are five communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Lockport.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lockport [Clinton County].
- Mifflin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lockport [Mifflin County].
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lockport [Northampton County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lockport [Westmoreland County].
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lockport [York County].
- Clinton County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lockport [Will County].
- Indiana
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lockport [Carroll County].
- Kansas
- Finney County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lockport [Finney County].
- Gray County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lockport [Gray County].
- Haskell County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lockport [Haskell County].
- Kentucky
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lockport [Henry County].
- Louisiana
- Lafourche Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lockport [Lafourche Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Lockport.
- Michigan
- Midland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lockport [Midland County].
- Saint Joseph County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lockport [Saint Joseph County].
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lockport [Niagara County].
- Ohio
- Tennessee
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lockport ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lockport:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lockport - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Erie County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Erie County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Lockport could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |