Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Rockton Historic District is a national historic district which encompasses much of the village of Rockton, Illinois. The district includes 208 buildings, most of which are residential.”
Wikipedia article Rockton Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
National Register reference number.78001202- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Thatcher Blake, Ephraim Sumner, Charles "Works, Phineas Churchill, Thomas Lake, and Ephraim Wjmian are living in Kockford, or its immediate vicinity. Thomas B. Talcott, Isaac Adams of Rockton, and A. C. Gleason live at Cherry Yalley; Simon P. Doty, at Belvidere; Harlyn Sliattuck, at Shattuck's Grove, Boone County (P. O. Belvidere); H. M. Wattles (at last authentic account, one year ago), in Minnesota; W. R. Wheeler, Colorado Springs, Colorado; P. M. Waller, Charles City, Iowa; Israel Morrill, Minnesota; David Caswell, Iowa.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Rockton Historic District
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Smoking
5
Arson/incendiarism
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of Rockton Historic District: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rockton, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Trees and power lines were blown down. Siding blown off a house. A deck was damaged from a grill that was blown over and a hard top cover was blown off a pool.
Flash flooding impacted portions of far northeast Winnebago County, specifically in the vicinity of Rockton. Street flooding was reported near Rockton Rd and Dorr Rd with floodwater reaching into yards. Street flooding was also reported via mPing along I-39 south of McCurry Rd. A private weather station on the east side of Rockton recorded 4.5 of rainfall. Two others nearby recorded closer to 3.5.
A tornado touched down west of Rockton near the bend in the Rock River and continued southeast, and lifted northwest of Roscoe. A gas station near 151 and Elevator Road had damage to glass and a wall. No other damage was reported.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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