Rock Port, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64482. It stands on Boney Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rock Port quadrangle. 1,278 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.
On record in Rock Port
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Atchison County Memorial Buildinglisted 1987
John Dickinson Dopf Mansionlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresRock Port fell from 1,318 to 1,278 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,318 | |
| 2020 | 1,278 | -40 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Nemaha quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Nemaha quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Nemaha quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Rock Port quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rock Port in 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 7 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230706-00310-08262020-1128 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190401-00307-04082020-1511 |
| 7 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230704-00310-04072020-1645 |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230703-00310-03082020-1645 |
| 6 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230702-00310-03062020-1443 |
| 7 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230699-00310-01072020-1413 |
| 3 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230698-00310-01032020-1604 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rock Port: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phelps City | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Langdon | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Linden | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Watson | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Tarkio | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Nishnabotna | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Fairfax | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sonora | 9.6 miles | 13 |
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 Rock Port | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962455 | The 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 730197. 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.
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.







