Locke is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

[2] The town was named after John Locke,[3] an English philosopher, and is the birthplace of Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States.

Locke was in the Central New York Military Tract, used to pay soldiers of the American Revolution.

They found evidence of earlier Native American occupants in the form of ruined villages and burial grounds.

Part of Locke was used in 1817 to form the town of Groton (now in Tompkins County).

A devastating fire in 1912 destroyed approximately thirty buildings in Locke village.

A second devastating fire occurred on April 10, 1975, destroying eleven buildings and causing approximately $650,000 in damage.