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Lockport
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city in Niagara County, New York, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- County
- Niagara
- Type
- Mayor-council
- Mayor
- John Lombardi III ( R )
- Common council
- Members' List At-Large Member: • Kevin M. Kirchberger ( R ) • W1: John D. Craig ( R ) • W2: Anita Mullane ( D ) • W3: Mark S. Devine ( R ) • W4: Kathryn Fogle ( R ) • W5: Margaret Lupo ( R )
- Total
- 8.44 sq mi (21.87 km )
- Land
- 8.40 sq mi (21.76 km )
- Water
- 0.046 sq mi (0.12 km )
- Elevation
- 614 ft (187 m)
- Density
- 2,485.3/sq mi (959.58/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 14094-14095
- Fips code
- 36-43082
- Gnis feature id
- 0955783
- Website
- lockportny .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lockport is both a city and the town that surrounds it in Niagara County, New York, United States. Lockport is a northern suburb of Buffalo. The city is the Niagara county seat; as of the 2020 census, Lockport had a population of 20,876.
Its name derives from a set of Erie Canal locks (Lock Numbers 34 and 35) within the city that were built to allow canal barges to traverse the 60-foot natural drop (18 m) of the Niagara Escarpment. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lockport” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.