Riley, IN

Riley, once known as Lockport, is a town in Riley Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 census counted 238 residents. Riley is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. The original town of Lockport was platted on November 23, 1836, by Nathaniel Donham. All areas in Vigo County are in the Vigo County School Corporation. Riley is zoned to Riley Elementary School, Honey Creek Middle School and Terre Haute South Vigo High School. The short version is that Riley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Riley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Riley was known as Lockport due to its importance during the building of the Wabash and Erie Canal from 1847–1850. At one time, the Wabash and Erie Canal ran through Riley and there are remnants of locks and the canal in several places.