According to the 2010 census, the village has a total area of 5.71 square miles (14.8 km 2), of which 5.50 square miles (14.2 km 2) (or 96.32%) is land and 0.21 square miles (0.54 km 2) (or 3.68%) is water. Native American tribes originally inhabited the region. Stephen Mack, Jr. was the first white settler in the Rockton area. He was married to Hononegah, a respected Native American woman from one of the surrounding tribes. His original outpost (c. 1830s) eventually became Macktown.
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