Rockport, Indiana
Rockport, Indiana Spencer County courthouse in Rockport Spencer County courthouse in Rockport Location in the state of Indiana Location in the state of Indiana Website Rockport, Indiana Rockport is a town/city in Ohio Township, Spencer County, Indiana, along the Ohio River. The populace was 2,270 at the 2010 census.
Once the biggest improve in Spencer County, the town/city has recently been surpassed by the town of Santa Claus.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of Spencer County. At 37 53'1" north, Rockport is also the southernmost town/city in the state, positioned slightly south of Evansville, Cannelton, or Mount Vernon (the westernmost city).
Three locations in Rockport are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Spencer County Courthouse, the Mathias Sharp House, and the Lincoln Pioneer Village. According to the 2010 census, Rockport has a total region of 1.604 square miles (4.15 km2), of which 1.57 square miles (4.07 km2) (or 97.88%) is territory and 0.034 square miles (0.09 km2) (or 2.12%) is water. There were 908 homeholds of which 33.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 14.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.9% were non-families.
33.8% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 14.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
25.5% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.9% were from 25 to 44; 25.5% were from 45 to 64; and 17.3% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 891 homeholds out of which 31.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, 13.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 35.9% were non-families.
32.5% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 18.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 10.2% of families and 14.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 19.4% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over.
Born in Rockport, Indiana, later lived in Mount Vernon and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Veatch, Indiana state legislator and Union general amid the Civil War; lived in Rockport at the time of his death.
Lincoln Pioneer Village, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is positioned in Rockport City Park.
Historically accurate replicas of a number of Spencer County cabins and businesses from Abraham Lincoln's time are the chief attraction of the Village, giving visitors the opportunity to see what it was like to live in Indiana amid Lincoln's formative years.
The Village was so well known throughout the United States in its early years that it was chosen as the setting for portions of the 1955 Burt Lancaster film The Kentuckian.
In recent years, the Village was restored by a group of committed volunteers with the help of a grant-in-aid from the state of Indiana, following up on a somewhat less historically accurate but necessary restoration in the 1980s.
Rockport is approximately 30 miles east of Evansville, Indiana, and is connected to that larger town/city by Indiana State Highway 66.
Tell City lies approximately 20 miles east of Rockport, also along Indiana 66.
The Indiana Department of Transportation is planning a new route for Indiana 66, but it is not yet known how this would affect Rockport.
The new highway would be a four-lane, partial limited-access facility connected at its west end to the existing four-lane portion of Indiana 66 near the town of Hatfield, and would also furnish access to the new, partial limited-access U.S.
History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present.
Bulletin - United States Geological Survey.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Municipalities and communities of Spencer County, Indiana, United States
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Cities in Indiana - Communities of Southwestern Indiana - Cities in Spencer County, Indiana - County seats in Indiana - Indiana populated places on the Ohio River
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