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Rockport, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the McHenry-Rockport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42369. It sits by Jackson Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Paradise quadrangle. 262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Rockport within Ohio County

Population over time

3 figures

Rockport fell from 334 to 262 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000334
2010266-68 (-20%)
2020262-4 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

58 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Rockport between 1998 and 2020, burning about 5,266 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry70 FIRE
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2010Debris and open burning265 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNELSON CREEK 2
28 August 2007Debris and open burning1,200 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEAD DEER
26 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burning450 acresKentucky Division of Forestry2 LEG FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockport in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRockport-Trees were downed in Rockport.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRockport-There were several trees down over roads in Rockport.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRockport-Trees were down near State Road 1245.
May 2010HailRockport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Echols1.7 miles12
Scottown1.8 miles12
Ken Wye2.4 miles12
Nineteen2.7 miles12
Ceralvo2.8 miles15
Simmons3.3 miles12
McHenry5.1 miles11
Equality5.7 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RockportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2413353The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 502221. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

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.