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Welcome to Rockport, Kentucky!
Rockport is a city in Ohio County, Kentucky, USA.
The population was 334 at the 2000 census.
City/TownInfo:Info site link Here.
Rockport, Kentucky, in Ohio county, is 31 miles S of Owensboro, Kentucky, 50 miles NW of Bowling Green, Kentucky and 81 miles N of Nashville, Tennessee.
The People and Families of Rockport -
In Rockport, about 65% of adults are married. Homes in Rockport tend to contain married couples.
Wealth and Education -
In 2000, Rockport had a median family income of $32,500.
Rockport Housing -
Of the houses, apartments, etc. in Rockport, about 74% are lived in by their owners, not renters. The city isn't one of those high-end cities with high property taxes.
In Rockport, 88% of commuters drive to work. There is no public transportation.
Through the 90's Rockport's population has declined by about 13%. It is estimated that in recent years Rockport's population has been growing at an annual rate of less than one percent.
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Rockport Ancestries: United States (21.0%), Irish (10.2%), German (4.8%), English (3.6%), Scotch-Irish (2.7%), Scottish (2.1%).
Elevation: 410 feet
Land area: 0.8 square miles
Zip Code: 42369
Phone Area Code: 270
Time Zone: Central Time Zone
Rockport is situated off US Route 62.
U.S. Route 62 runs from near the United States-Canada border at Niagara Falls, New York all the way to the US-Mexico border
at El Paso, Texas.
Length: 2,248[1] mi (3617 km)
Formed: 1930[1]
West end: Mexican border in El Paso, TX
Major
junctions: I-10 in El Paso, TX
I-27 at Lubbock, TX
I-44 at Lawton, OK
I-35/40 at Oklahoma City, OK
I-55 at Sikeston, MO
I-24 at Paducah, KY
I-71 at Columbus, OH
I-80 near Youngstown, OH
North end: NY 104 at Niagara Falls, NY
US 62 is the parallel route for both the WK and Blue Grass parkways yet this is the only place where US 62 intersects either parkway.
West of this exit, US 62 intersects US 641. US 641 north leads to Marion, where it ends at US 60. US 62 west and US 641 south go to
Eddyville, where they intersect I-24, then continue to the Kentucky and Barkley lakes area. US 62 east leads to Princeton.
Although the Western Kentucky Parkway passes by Rockport just to the Souteast of town, there is NO exit or entrance to the WK Parkway at Rockport,
one must go to Beaver Dam or Central City for the Entrance/Exit.
The road was renamed for Wendell H. Ford, a former Kentucky governor and United States Senator, in 1998. Previously, it was simply the Western
Kentucky Parkway, and often called the "WK Parkway" because of the abbreviation once used on its signs.
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Rockport Officials
Mayor: Kermit Geary
PO Box 184
Rockport, KY 42369
Phone: (270) 274-9783
Commissioners:
Susie Campbell
Donna Harris
Tania Burns
Nancy Roop
Manager: Vacant
Clerk/Treasurer: Angela Daugherty
Attorney: Glenn Miller
Fire Chief: Patrick Givens
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A Tidbit of Info:
A former Union General, Don Carlos Buell
1818–98, Union general in the Civil War, b. near Marietta, Ohio, grad. West Point, 1841. Buell was appointed brigadier
general of volunteers in the Civil War (May, 1861), helped organize the Army of the Potomac, and took command of the Dept.
of Ohio (Nov., 1861). He supported Grant's move up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers by marching on Bowling Green, and
after the fall of Fort Donelson he pursued the retreating Confederates to Nashville.
In Mar., 1862, he was placed under
Gen. H. W. Halleck and made major general of the Army of the Ohio, in which service he played a decisive role at Shiloh
(see Shiloh, battle of Shiloh, battle of, Apr. 6–7, 1862), one of the great battles of the American Civil War. The battle took its name from Shiloh Church, a meetinghouse.
He forced the Confederates to retreat from Kentucky at Perryville (Oct. 8, 1962) but was dilatory in his pursuit. He was replaced by Gen. W. S. Rosecrans Rosecrans, William Starke
subsequently he was investigated by the military and discharged.
A president of Green River ironworks (1865-70), and subsequently engaged in various mining enterprises. He died of unspecified causes
near Rockport, Kentucky, on the 19th of November 1898.
Ohio County boasts the homeplace birth of Bill Monroe,
often referred to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music"; Bill Monroe was born in Rosine.
Seldom can a particular genre of music be credited to the vision and influence of a lone individual as is the case with Bill Monroe and Bluegrass. In a career spanning over half
a century, "The Father of Bluegrass" created, popularized, and trained numerous practitioners in this distinctly American style of music called "Bluegrass".
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