Welcome to Rock Springs ...

Rock Springs is located in Rosebud County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rock Springs, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1911.

A typical abbreviation for Rock Springs: Rock Spgs. (or less commonly used: Rock Spngs. or Rock Sprngs.)

Rock Springs is 2,940 feet [896 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Rock Springs is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Rock Springs lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Rock Springs: 406

Communities Also Named Rock Springs ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 40 communities that are also named Rock Springs - they are located in Alabama (5), Arizona, Arkansas (3), California, Florida (2), Georgia (3), Kansas, Kentucky (2), Maryland, Missouri (2), New Mexico, North Carolina (3), Ohio, Tennessee (6), Texas (3), Utah, Virginia (2), Wisconsin and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Rock Springs.

Communities near Rock Springs ...

We have created a list of 3 communities that are near Rock Springs.

• Angela
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angela
  • Angela is located in Rosebud County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Angela <3>
• Hillside
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
  • Hillside is located in Garfield County
• Cohagen
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cohagen
  • Cohagen is located in Garfield County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cohagen <3>

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Rock Springs ...

Looking for more information about Rock Springs? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Rock Springs, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Rock Springs.

Adding Rock Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rock Springs in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Rock Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Rock Springs post office opened in 1911.

We also found Rock Springs on a map titled Hixson Map of Montana (1950).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rock Springs.