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Rockport, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1966. It stands in the East Skagit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98283. It stands on Sauk River. The Survey maps it on the Rockport quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Rockport within Skagit County

Population over time

3 figures

Rockport fell from 102 to 90 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
2000102
2010109+7 (+7%)
202090-19 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Rockport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersUPRIVER 3
13 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestSAUK MTN
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCORNELL
28 August 2020Recreation and ceremony2.8 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCKPORT CASCADE
25 August 1992Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
18 August 2008Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestRINKER
14 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Rockport: 13 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Nickel. 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
BinghamNickelOccurrence
RockportCalciumOccurrence
Wash Marble & Building StoneStoneUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
HornbeckSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wilder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
BroderickLimestone, DimensionUnknown

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Sauk1.7 miles14
Nestos (historical)5.6 miles15
Van Horn6.1 miles15
Corkindale6.8 miles9
Marblemount8.4 miles9
Concrete8.7 miles15
Grassmere10.4 miles17
Portage12.9 miles9

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 Q1508290The 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 1525156. 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.