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History · Rockville Township

44% of Rockville Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Station Little Arkansas and the Santa Fe Trail-Rice County Segment 2.

2on the National Register
44%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

2 historic places in Rockville Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1995
Station Little Arkansas
Station Little ArkansasSanta Fe Trail-Rice County Segment 2
Sites
All 2 listings
Station Little ArkansasSite · listed 1995Santa Fe Trail-Rice County Segment 2Site · listed 2013

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Gone or out of use
Welch-Bornholdt Oil Fieldoilfield

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Hayes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEast Washington TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUnion TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWilson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Rockville Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Rockville Township?

Two places: the Station Little Arkansas (listed 1995) and the Santa Fe Trail-Rice County Segment 2 (2013).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (2) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.