Rockport | |
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Former settlement | |
  Rockport Location in California  Rockport Rockport (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°44′20″N 123°48′58″W / 39.73889°N 123.81611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Mendocino County |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9 m) |
Rockport (formerly, Cotineva)[2] is a former settlement in an unincorporated area of Mendocino County, California.[1] It is located 7.25 miles (12 km) north-northwest of Westport,[2] at an elevation of 30 feet (9 m).[1]
Rockport started as a small company town serving the timber industry[3] on the Pacific Ocean coast among redwood forests in Northern California.[4] Rockport is regarded as the southern end of the Lost Coast region; it is where State Highway 1, which runs very close along the coast for most of its length, instead turns inland before merging with U.S. Route 101 at Leggett.
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rockport, California
- ^ a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 133. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ "Company Towns". Mendocino Redwood Company website. Ukiah, California. Retrieved March 18, 2009.
- ^ Selna, Robert (March 18, 2009). "Claude Brinegar, Nixon Cabinet member, dies". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California. Retrieved March 18, 2009.
Mr. Brinegar was born on the Northern California coast in the small lumber town of Rockport …