Editing Rockport, Indiana (section)

==History==
Lots were first sold in Rockport in 1818.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwarrick00chic|year=1885|publisher=Goodspeed|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwarrick00chic/page/328 328]}}</ref> The town received its name from rock outcroppings on the [[Ohio River]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin - United States Geological Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ix0MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265|year=1905|publisher=The Survey.|page=265}}</ref>

Three locations in Rockport are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the [[Spencer County Courthouse (Indiana)|Spencer County Courthouse]], the [[Mathias Sharp House]], and the [[Lincoln Pioneer Village]].<ref>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

The Rockport post office has been in operation since 1823.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Spencer&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Spencer County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=July 9, 2016}}</ref>

Cleveland-Cliffs Rockport Works is located on the Ohio River near Rockport. The facility has an 80” wide galvanizing line which is the widest in the United States. The hot-dip galvanizing and galvannealing line incorporates revolutionary proprietary technologies, including induction transition heating, which provides rapid, accurate annealing temperature control.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/operations/steelmaking/rockport-works |title=Rockport Works |website=clevelandcliffs.com |access-date=2023-10-06}}</ref> Rockport Works is one of the largest employers in Spencer County.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hoosierdata.in.gov/major_employers.asp?areaID=147 |title=Major employers |website=hoosierdata.in.gov}}</ref>

In 2013, while under the previous ownership of AK Steel, Rockport Works was reported by the EPA as the source for 70% of the pollution in the Ohio River, the nation's most polluted waterway.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/epa-reports-ohio-river-most-contaminated-body-of-water-in-the-country/149752570 | title= EPA Reports Ohio River Most Contaminated Body Of Water In The Country | access-date=June 2, 2017}}</ref>