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Welcome to Rockfield ...

Rockfield is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rockfield, you might consider that their post office opened in 1876.

Rockfield is 900 feet [274 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Rockfield lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Rockfield: 262

Communities Also Named Rockfield ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Rockfield - they are located in California, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nova Scotia and Ontario.

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

Communities near Rockfield ...

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

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 Rockfield. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Rockfield.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Rockfield. 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 Rockfield.

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

Adding Rockfield to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rockfield 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 Rockfield was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Rockfield post office opened in 1876. The Rockfield post office closed in 1993.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rockfield.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rockfield - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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/