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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.

Rock Port within Atchison County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Rock 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,318
20201,278-40 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2020

Regional 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/undetermined7

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
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230706-00310-08262020-1128
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190401-00307-04082020-1511
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230704-00310-04072020-1645
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230703-00310-03082020-1645
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230702-00310-03062020-1443
7 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230699-00310-01072020-1413
3 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230698-00310-01032020-1604

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Atchison 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
Phelps City4.4 miles12
Langdon5.0 miles14
Linden5.3 miles12
Watson7.1 miles12
Tarkio7.6 miles12
Nishnabotna8.0 miles14
Fairfax8.2 miles13
Sonora9.6 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 Rock PortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962455The 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.