locate

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.

To find out where something is located.

I really can't locate the sever files.

In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.

To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

The council must locate the new hospital.

to locate a mining claim

To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.