What are some ways or other words for locating something?

Are you referring to only people
How about: “rescued” or “saved” – if they are alive.
“Recovered” – if they are not.

How about “discovered” or “uncovered” or “freed”?

Searching.

My Comprehensive Word Guide (not a thesaurus, but similar) gives:
– alight upon
– chance on or upon
– come upon
– descry (a new one on me)
– detect
– encounter
– meet
– overtake
– pinpoint
– retrieve
– scavenge
– scent
– sight
– sniff
– snuff (It’s an old book; what can I say? That’s not how we’d use the word today!)
– spot
– strike
– stumble upon or across
– surprise
– trace
– track
– turn up
– unearth
– upturn

- as well as some of the others already given above.

Recon? Reconoiter ?

Discover
Home in on
Sniff out (by rescue dogs)
Hit upon
Set eyes on
Glimpse
Espy
Contact
Run into

I like pinpoint, discover, and disclosed, depending on the situation.

@dopeguru

Eureka dope.

Eureka is an interjection used to celebrate a discovery or invention. It is a transliteration of an exclamation attributed to Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcXGhuliRk

Austen Tayshus – Australiana (Official Uncensored Version)

^^“Eureka!” (Greek: ’εὕρηκα) is the actual term in Classical Greek for “I have found it!”