Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Rockford, IA

Rockford is a city in Floyd County in northern Iowa that sits at the confluence of the Shell Rock River and the Winnebago River.

Rockford's motto is 'Home of the Devonian Fossils.'

Rockford's post office opened in 1855, and the city was incorporated on March 19, 1878.

By 1882 Rockford already had about 800 residents and its own four-page weekly newspaper, the Rockford Reveille, published every Thursday.

The 2020 census counted 758 people in Rockford, living in 332 households and 205 families, down from the city's peak of 1,080 residents in 1900.

Just west of Rockford is the Floyd County Fossil and Prairie Park Center, a nature center and county park built on the former clay pit of the defunct Rockford Brick and Tile Company, which Floyd County acquired in 1990.

The fossil park is considered a world-class fossil collecting locale because the Devonian-era ocean-bottom sediment there never hardened into stone as it did elsewhere in the region, so fossils, especially brachiopods, weather out as complete, museum-grade specimens.

Rockford is served by the Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Community School District.

Rockford was the hometown of brothers Fred and August Duesenberg, the automobile manufacturers behind the Duesenberg car company.

Rockford's other notable natives include Robert James Waller, author and former dean of the University of Northern Iowa's business school, and actor Jeremy Davies.