Rock Port, Missouri

Atchison County

29-62696

Rockport is a small town and county seat of Atchison County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. In the census in 2010 Kirksville had 1,318 inhabitants.

Geography

Rockport is located at 40 ° 24'44 " north latitude and 95 ° 31'11 " west longitude and extending over 7.4 km ², which consist exclusively of land area. Rockport is located in the northwest corner of Missouri a few miles east of the Missouri River, which forms the border with Nebraska. The border with Iowa is located about 20 km north of Rockport.

Neighboring towns are Watson (15,7 km northeast), Tarkio (14,6 km east- north-east ), Fairfax (17,1 km southeast), Langdon (9,9 km southwest) and Brownsville, on the west bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska (14, 0 miles west).

The nearest large towns are Omaha, Nebraska (122 km north-northwest ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (283 km northeast ), Kansas City (185 km south-east ) and Nebraska's capital, Lincoln (135 km north-west ).

Traffic

On the western edge is in northwest -southeast direction, take Interstate 29, which is the shortest route between Omaha and Kansas City on this section. As East-West ring road leads U.S. Highway 136 on the northern edge of Rockport along. 13 km west of the city, the Brownsville Bridge with the crossing of the Missouri the shortest connection to Nebraska dar. through the town center into north-south direction, the Missouri State Route 11

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