Do you know of Rock Prairie ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rock Prairie. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Rock Prairie.

Our sources for Rock Prairie (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Rock Prairie other than they indicate that Rock Prairie would be found somewhere in Rock County, Wisconsin.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Rock Prairie ...

We found two communities that share the name Rock Prairie.

Within Wisconsin, the name Rock Prairie is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Dade County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rock Prairie [Dade County].
    • Polk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rock Prairie [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rock Prairie ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rock Prairie:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rock Prairie - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Rock County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Rock County.