Rockford is a city in Wright and Hennepin counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Evidence of indigenous settlement in what is today Rockford can be found in burial mounds ranging from 500 to 1500 years old, as well as a trail which runs under the Bridge Street Bridge on the Hennepin County side.

The area was a natural border land between the Ojibwe and Dakota, with both tribes utilizing the space for hunting and wintering.

Though the space was primarily utilized by the Dakota, there also existed an Objibwe village near modern-day Dayton, on the Crow River.

As colonial settlement widened in Wisconsin, the Ho-Chunk were pushed west and forced to resettle near Rockford.

After the Treaty Traverse de Sioux in 1851, the land was opened to white settlers; after surveying was completed in 1854, plots became available for purchase to homesteaders.

Four years later, in 1859, the first US troops called to Minnesota were dispatched to Rockford in response to the so-called Wright County War, a period of rioting in the area.

[6] The Crow River is formed at Rockford by the confluence of its North and South Forks.

The elementary focuses mainly on an arts program, while the middle and high schools put more of an emphasis on technology.

[8] The high school has, for the past four years, scored higher than the state average in mathematics.