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Lockport is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 22,279 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from several Erie canal locks within the city.

The City of Lockport is the county seat of Niagara County and is surrounded by the Town of Lockport.

Lockport became a village in 1829. The City of Lockport was incorporated in 1865.

Many early settlers were Quakers, encouraged to move to the area by the promise of the new canal. The community was built around a series of locks on the Erie Canal. The canal reached Lockport in 1824, but the locks were not completed until 1825. Many Irish canal workers remained in Lockport after the completion of the locks, giving the city a heavy Irish influence still discernable today, especially in the neighborhoods of Lowertown and North Lockport.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.4 km (8.6 mi). 22.1 km (8.5 mi) of it is land and 0.3 km (0.1 mi) of it (1.39%) is water.