Rockport, West Virginia
(Wood County)

Community	2016 ^<1> Population	Direction	Distance ^<2>
Parkersburg	30,601	N	12 miles [19.3 km]
Marietta (OH)	13,650	N	24 miles [38.6 km]
Vienna	10,459	N	16 miles [25.7 km]

Wood County ...

Rockport is located in Wood County.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Wood County.

Population Rings for Rockport ...

To help identify the number of people who live in Rockport and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Rockport. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<3> We don't have the population of Rockport, so its people haven't been included.

Radius	No of Communities	2016 Population	Change Since 2010
10 mi [16 km]	2	831	+0.97%
15 mi [24 km]	6	41,890	-2.16%
20 mi [32 km]	11	57,564	-2.13%
25 mi [40 km]	20	82,250	-2.36%
30 mi [48 km]	27	90,454	-2.44%

Miscellaneous Information for Rockport ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has referenced one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Wood County or the community of Rockport:

The GNIS Codes ...

The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Rockport:

GNIS ID for Rockport: 1555508

GNIS ID for Wood County: 1560558

GNIS ID for West Virginia: 1779805

The FIPS Codes ...

An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):

State Code: 54 (West Virginia)

County Code: 107 (Wood County)

Place Code: 69580 (Rockport)

State & County Code: 54/107 (West Virginia / Wood County)

State & Place Code: 54/69580 (West Virginia / Rockport)

Misc. Census Codes ...

Rockport is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Rockport.

Other Roadside Stops ...

The Communities of West Virginia

About Wood County

About West Virginia

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Rockport. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Wood County: www.woodcountywv.com/

The official website for State of West Virginia: www.wv.gov/

The official website of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)

The official website of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Footnotes ...

<1>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. - Return to Citation
<2>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance that begins in Rockport. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rockport) to Point B. Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rockport. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0742, Longitude: -81.5532 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for Rockport have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). - Return to Citation
<3>	The communities in our count are those provided by the 2010 Census, so keep in mind that our population rings will only include the people living in those communities. Smaller communities usually don't participate directly in the Census and therefore they won't be included. While our count is a close approximation, it shouldn't be considered as a complete or accurate count. - Return to Citation

For additional information, please visit our Glossary for Rockport.

Rockport, West Virginia (Wood County)

The location of Rockport

Census Data for Rockport ...