Rockport
Rockport is a town in Knox County, located two and a half miles south of Camden on U.S. Highway 1. It is part of the Mid Coast region of Maine.Photo: Benggriff, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 3,390 residents
- Description: town in Knox County, Maine, United States
- Also known as: “Rockport, Maine” and “Rockport, ME”
- Postal code: 04856
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rockport Historic District and Curtis Island Light.
Rockport Historic District
Historic site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Rockport Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Rockport, Maine. Arrayed around the head of its harbor, the town's most significant period of development was in the mid 19th century, because of lime processing and other industries.
Curtis Island Light
Museum
Curtis Island Light, originally Negro Island Light, is a lighthouse marking the approach to the harbor of Camden, Maine. It is on Curtis Island, which shelters the harbor from ocean storms.
Curtis Island
Island
Photo: Fitz Henry Lane, Public domain.
Curtis Island is an island located in the exterior of Camden Harbor, in Camden, Maine, United States. Curtis Island was initially known as Mark Island to early explorers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Camden.
Camden
Photo: Paul VanDerWerf, CC BY 2.0.
Camden is an affluent town in the state of Maine, a little over an hour north of Portland, in the mid-coast region of Maine. It has been a tourist destination for years and is home to some of the wealthiest individuals in Maine.
Rockport
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Rockport, Knox County, Mid Coast, Maine, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.1875° or 44° 11′ 15″ northLongitude
-69.073° or 69° 4′ 23″ westPopulation
3,390Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)United Nations Location Code
US RP3Open location code
87PG5WQG+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 158813577OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Rockport” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rockport”
- Catalan: “Rockport”
- Cebuano: “Rockport”
- Chechen: “Рокпорт”
- Chinese: “羅克波特”
- Dutch: “Rockport”
- French: “Rockport”
- German: “Rockport”
- Haitian: “Rockport, Maine”
- Haitian: “Rockport”
- Hungarian: “Rockport”
- Italian: “Rockport”
- Japanese: “ロックポート (メイン州)”
- Japanese: “ロックポート”
- Kazakh: “Rokport”
- Kazakh: “Рокпорт”
- Kazakh: “روكپورت”
- Kirghiz: “Рокпорт”
- Mazanderani: “راکپورت”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rockport”
- Norwegian: “Rockport”
- Polish: “Rockport”
- Russian: “Рокпорт (Мэн)”
- Russian: “Рокпорт”
- Spanish: “Rockport (Maine)”
- Spanish: “Rockport”
- Tatar: “Рокпорт”
- Turkish: “Rockport”
- Ukrainian: “Рокпорт”
- Urdu: “راکپورٹ، مینے”
- Urdu: “راکپورٹ”
- Volapük: “Rockport”
- Welsh: “Rockport, Maine”
- Welsh: “Rockport”
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