Rock Island Explained

Rock Island may refer to:

• islets known as rocks or rock islands

Places

• Rock Island Township (disambiguation)

Canada

Islands

• Rock Island (Nunavut)
• Rock Islands (Lake Nipissing), an island in Ontario

Communities

• Rock Island, Quebec, a community within the ville of Stanstead

United States

• Rock Island II Site, Rock Island, Door County, Wisconsin; an archaeological site

Lakes

• Rock Island Lake, Elmore County, Idaho; a lake
• Rock Island Pool, Washington State; a reservoir lake

Islands

• Rock Island (Lake County, Montana), an island in Flathead Lake
• Rock Island (Sanders County, Montana), an island in Noxon Reservoir
• Rock Island, formerly known as Fortification Rock in Nevada in Lake Mead
• Rock Island (New York) on the Saint Lawrence River
• Rock Island, in Lake Bonaparte (New York)
• Rock Island (Oregon), in the Willamette River
• Rock Island (Rhode Island)
• Rock Island (Wisconsin)
  • Rock Island State Park (Wisconsin)

Communities

• Rock Island, Florida
• Rock Island, Illinois, largest city in the U.S. with that name
  • Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, a multi-state conurbation
• Rock Island County, Illinois
  • Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois
• Rock Island, Oklahoma
• Rock Island, Tennessee
• Rock Island, Colorado County, Texas
• Rock Island, Washington County, Texas
• Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas, once Rock Island, Deaf Smith County, Texas
• Rock Island, Washington

Elsewhere

• Rock Island (Ireland)
• Rock Islands, Palau
• Rock Island (Trinidad and Tobago)

Transportation

• Rock Island Depot (disambiguation)
• Rock Island Bridge (disambiguation)
• Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, a railway company, known as the Rock Island Line
  • 1894 Rock Island railroad wreck, a train sabotage which killed 11 near Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Rock Island Snow Plow No. 95580, a railway plow
  • Rock Island 886, a steam locomotive
• Rock Island District, a commuter rail line in Chicago
• Rock Island Light (Rock Island) a lighthouse on the Saint-Lawrence River, in Jefferson, County, New York State, USA

Film and television

• Rock Island Mysteries, a 2022 Australian children's drama TV series

Music

• Rock Island 2002, a music event held in 2002 on the Isle of Wight

Albums

• Rock Island (Jethro Tull album)
• Rock Island (Palm album)

Songs

• "Rock Island Line", a blues/folk song by Leadbelly
• "Rock Island", a song from the musical The Music Man

Other uses

• Rock Island State Park (disambiguation)
• Rock Island Trail (disambiguation)
• Rock Island High School, Rock Island, Illinois, USA
• Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, USA; historic arsenal on Mississippi River
  • Rock Island Arsenal Museum
  • Rock Island National Cemetery
• Rock Island Islanders, Rock Island, Illinois, USA; a minor league baseball team

See also

• Rock Island Line (disambiguation)
• Rock Island M200, pistol
• Battle of Rock Island Rapids (War of 1812) in Illinois
• Hurd v. Rock Island Bridge Co. (1857) a law case fought by lawyer Abraham Lincoln
  • • Island (disambiguation)
• Rock (disambiguation)
• The Rock (disambiguation), including islands known as "The Rock(s)"
• Rocky Island (disambiguation)