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Rockwell is a city in southern Cerro Gordo County in north-central Iowa that was founded in 1870 and laid out by George B. Rockwell and the Iowa Valley Construction Company.

Rockwell was named in honor of George B. Rockwell, the original landowner on whose land the town stands, and the name was chosen by Charles C. Gilman, the first president of the Central Railway of Iowa.

James Howland built Rockwell's first house in the fall of 1870, the same season the railroad depot and section hands' house were built.

Rockwell sits about 10 miles south of Mason City, the Cerro Gordo County seat, and is considered part of the Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The 2020 census counted 1,071 people in Rockwell, living in 408 households and 278 families, the largest population in the city's history.

Rockwell spreads those residents across nearly 3 square miles, giving it a low population density of only about 360 people per square mile.

Rockwell was damaged in 1907 when a tornado swept across northern Iowa as part of an outbreak that also struck parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois.

Rockwell's Zeidler Park is a 25-acre park formerly owned by local businessman Verle Zeidler, whose land was granted to a trust after his death to maintain it as a park.

Rockwell's Linn Grove is a 38-acre campground on Beaver Dam Creek, which feeds into the Cedar River, and the Linn Grove Golf Course sits on the Linn Grove Country Club grounds.

Rockwell is part of the West Fork Community School District, formed in 2008 by the merger of the Rockwell-Swaledale and SCMT school districts, and the town hosts the West Fork elementary school while the middle and high schools are in neighboring Sheffield.