Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Lockport, NY

Lockport is a city in Niagara County, New York, and the county seat, and it takes its name from the set of Erie Canal locks — Locks 34 and 35 — built within the city.

Lockport's locks were built to carry canal barges over the roughly 60-foot natural drop of the Niagara Escarpment, the same rock ridge over which Niagara Falls pours.

The Seneca people called the site Jodö:sho:t, meaning 'springs there,' and when the exact lock locations were fixed in December 1820, the future city site was owned by only fifteen men, many of them Quakers.

Lockport became the Niagara County seat in 1822, was incorporated as a village in 1829 and was chartered as a city in 1865.

The 2020 census counted 20,876 residents in the city of Lockport, living in 9,293 households, while the surrounding Town of Lockport counted 20,529 residents of its own at the 2010 census.

Lockport's original 'Flight of Five' — twin staircases of five locks each — was supplanted on the south side by the two much larger locks E34 and E35 when the New York State Barge Canal opened in 1918, but the northern Flight of Five chambers still stand and serve as a spillway.

Known as 'The Lock City,' Lockport showcases its canal heritage at the Lockport Erie Canal Museum and the Canal Discovery Center, and visitors can ride through the locks on Lockport Locks and Erie Canal Cruises.

The Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Ride tours a man-made hydraulic raceway tunnel carved beneath the city.

Lockport claims the widest bridge in North America — 399 feet wide and 129 feet long — spanning the canal southwest of the locks.

Lockport's largest employer is General Motors Components, the former Harrison Radiator Corporation, which was founded in Lockport in 1912 and became a General Motors division in 1918.