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Welcome to Rock Rest ...

Rock Rest is located in Union County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rock Rest, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888.

Rock Rest is 560 feet [171 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Rock Rest lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Rock Rest: 704 & 980<3>

Websites for Rock Rest ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.unioncountycoc.com/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Rock Rest, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Rock Rest ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Rock Rest.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Rock Rest. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Rock Rest.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Rock Rest. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rock Rest.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Rock Rest. See our Newspapers Page for Rock Rest.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Rock Rest ...

Looking for more information about Rock Rest? 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 Rest, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Rock Rest.

Adding Rock Rest to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rock Rest 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 (so far) for Rock Rest was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Rock Rest post office opened in 1888. The Rock Rest post office closed in 1900.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Union, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rock Rest - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 704 code has been Overlayed with the 980 area code. New phone numbers in the Rock Rest area will be assigned with one of these codes: 704 or 980. As a result, placing a call in the Rock Rest area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/