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.
Legal Definition of situs. : a location that is or is held to be the site of something (as property or a crime or tort) and that commonly determines jurisdiction over it the situs of a conspiracy.
In archaeology, in situ refers to an artifact that has not been moved from its original place of deposition. In other words, it is stationary, meaning still.. An artifact being in situ is critical to the interpretation of that artifact and, consequently, of the culture which formed it.Once an artifact's 'find-site' has been recorded, the artifact can then be moved for conservation, further interpretation and display.he label in situ indicates only that the object has not been newly moved. Thus, an archaeological in situ find may be an object that was historically looted from another place, an item of booty of a past war, a traded item, or otherwise of foreign origin.