Rockport

town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States

Place new_england_town Q2079395

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of: New England town
Inception: 1623^[8]
Official website: www.town.rockport.ma.us^[9]
Official name: Rockport^[13]

Location

Country: United States^[3]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 42.656°, -70.621°
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Essex County^[2]

Population and size

Area: +45.4^[16]
Elevation above sea level: +23^[15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 23 m GeoNames 16 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population: +6952, +6992^[10]^[11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6,952 · 6,992 GeoNames 4,966 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code: 01966^[4]

More facts +5

Part of: North Shore, Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Essex district, Massachusetts Senate's First Essex and Middlesex district^[5]^[6]^[7]
Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[12]
Located in the statistical territorial entity: Peabody–Beverly–Gloucester NECTA division^[17]
Number of households: +3402^[14]
Per capita income: +52665^[18]

🏷️ Also known as

en Rockport, Massachusetts en Rockport en Rockport, MA el Ρόκπορτ es Rockport (Massachusetts) fa راکپورت fi Rockport, Massachusetts he רוקפורט ja ロックポート pt Rockport, Massachusetts ru Рокпорт zh 洛克波特 zh 罗克波特 zh 羅克波特 (麻薩諸塞州) zh 达文波特家园

🔖 Identifiers · 23

VIAF cluster ID: 145056427
Library of Congress authority ID: n82020726
GND ID: 4374296-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Rockport Mass harbour and Motif 1.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID: 9726
Curlie ID: Regional/North_America/United_States/Massachusetts/Localities/R/Rockport/
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US): 25-57880
Freebase ID: /m/01wvyj
GNIS Feature ID: 618308
GeoNames ID: 4948936
Harper's tag: rockport
Museum-digital place ID: 43683

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MusicBrainz area ID: 4b55b87c-507b-459d-986c-33314e5af366
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007557585405171
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 2377878
Quora topic ID: Rockport-MA
RKD thesaurus ID: 3314
Topic's main category: Category:Rockport, Massachusetts
U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10040743
UN/LOCODE: USJRT
Who's on First ID: 85950803
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJqQwJCXrVd8rg8HrxVKVC
Yale LUX ID: place/171b8c58-90ff-4252-ab95-bf3298e5c80c

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🔗 Connections

People who died here 8

Janet Scudder, Michael McKinnell, Reynolds Beal, BeBe Shopp, John F. Kieran, Ladislav Bittman, Vera Eugenia Andrus, George Alexander Forsyth

People born here 5

Andrew Stanton, Paula Cole, Vermin Supreme, Marshall Howard Saville, Bertha Mahony

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Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed III

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danalite, annite

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Rockport, Massachusetts

Contained subdivisions 1

Halibut Point State Park

Country 1

United States

Described by source 1

Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

Instance of 1

New England town

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Essex County

Topic's main category 1

Category:Rockport, Massachusetts

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Category:People from Rockport, Massachusetts

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Category:Rockport, Massachusetts

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Essex County

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Summary

Rockport is a New England town^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Rockport — country (P17): United States. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Rockport — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Essex County. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Rockport — postal code (P281): 01966. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Rockport — part of (P361): North Shore. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Rockport — part of (P361): Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Essex district. malegislature.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-05. malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Rockport — part of (P361): Massachusetts Senate's First Essex and Middlesex district. sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved 2020-03-21. sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Rockport — inception (P571): 1623. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Rockport — official website (P856): http://www.town.rockport.ma.us/. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Rockport — population (P1082): 6952. 2010 United States Census. Retrieved 2022-05-10. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Rockport — population (P1082): 6992. 2020 United States Census. Retrieved 2022-01-01. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Rockport — described by source (P1343): Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Rockport — official name (P1448): Rockport. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Rockport — number of households (P1538): 3402. 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved 2022-05-05. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Rockport — elevation above sea level (P2044): 23 m. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Rockport — area (P2046): 45.4 km². wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Rockport — located in the statistical territorial entity (P8138): Peabody–Beverly–Gloucester NECTA division. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Rockport — per capita income (P10622): 52,665 US dollars. 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved 2022-04-29. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Rockport is an instance of New England town (Q2154459) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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26d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Rockport, Massachusetts

Population → —

Official website → http://www.town.rockport.ma.us/

Instance of → —

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