Lock Number Sixty-Eight

Lock Number Sixty-Eight is a dam in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Lock Number Sixty-Eight is situated nearby to the railway station Shawmont station, as well as near Ivy Ridge station.

Type: Dam
Description: dam in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, United States of America
Also known as: “Lock 68” and “Lock Number 68”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shawmont station and Ivy Ridge station.

Shawmont station

Railway station

Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.

Shawmont is a former train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located on Nixon Street in the Roxborough section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia. Shawmont station is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.

Ivy Ridge station

Railway station

Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ivy Ridge station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Umbria Street and Parker Avenue in Northwest Philadelphia, it serves the Manayunk/Norristown Line. Ivy Ridge station is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.

Belmont Hills Public Library

Library

Photo: Spybeak, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Belmont Hills Public Library is situated 1 mile south of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belmont Hills and Manayunk.

Belmont Hills

Neighborhood

Located in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, Belmont Hills is a suburb of Philadelphia. Belmont Hills is a neighborhood within the village of Bala Cynwyd.

Manayunk

Neighborhood

Photo: Dasprevailz, Public domain.

Manayunk is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States.

Penn Valley

Suburb

Penn Valley is an unincorporated community located within Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Despite sharing a zip code with Narberth, because the community does not have its own post office, Penn Valley is a separate and distinct community… Penn Valley is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.

Lock Number Sixty-Eight

Categories: lock and historic site
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.03794° or 40° 2′ 17″ north

Longitude

-75.24448° or 75° 14′ 40″ west

Elevation

20 feet (6 metres)

Open location code

87G62QQ4+56

OpenStreetMap ID

node 588195023

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=lock

OpenStreetMap feature

water=lock

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=dam

GeoNames ID

5198644

Wikidata ID

Q48992558

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In Other Languages

“Lock Number Sixty-Eight” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Lock Number Sixty-Eight”

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