Rockport, Massachusetts

Rockport grew from 4,966 to 5,010 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. 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.

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1984

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.

• 1886 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1888 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Cape Ann quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:31680
• 1945 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:25000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Gloucester quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:25000
• 1984 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:25000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Rockport between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eden Square
• Lands End
• Ocean View
• Pigeon Cove
• Stonehaven (historical)
• Lanesville

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Museums hold 3,770 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rockport between 1817 and 1975: 1,400 Animalia, 1,215 Plantae, 697 Fungi, 310 Chromista, 88 Protozoa, 46 Unrecorded, 14 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Perlmutter, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour and F. C. Seymour and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.	1900	Clara E. Cummings
	Coluber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1817	not recorded	Loblolly Cove, Cape Ann
	Lecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.	1839	E. Tuckerman	Manchester
	Ochrolechia yasudae Vainio	1839	Tuckerman, E.	[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
	Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	Manchester
	Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1847	N. Pike	Cape Ann
	Acolium tigillare (Ach.) Gray	1849	s.leg.
	Arthonia E.Acharius, 1806	1849	Tuckerman Edward
	Arthonia spectabilis Flot.	1849	Edward Tuckerman	Essex
	Arthothelium spectabile A.Massal.	1849	William Oakes
	Cyphelium tigillare (Ach.) Ach.	1849	W. Oakes	Essex
	Delesseria alata (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux	1859	R.H. Ward	Cape Ann.

All 3,770 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rockport: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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.

Every working recorded in Essex County

The National Weather Service names Rockport in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2000: 1 waterspout, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 616229. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.