Rockville is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

According to the local oral tradition, a village of the Dakota people was once located to the north of the lake.

[6] The parish cemetery in nearby Jacobs Prairie, Minnesota includes the grave of early Rockville pioneer Michael Hanson, Sr. Hanson was already an elderly immigrant when he arrived as a homesteader with his sons and many of his grandchildren from the Luxembourgish-speaking but Prussian-ruled village of Obersgegen.

Hanson was old enough, in fact, to have been a combat veteran of the French Imperial Army who had lost a leg to enemy fire during the Napoleonic Wars.

As stipulated in his last request, Hanson lies buried in St. James Cemetery next to his close friend, pioneer settler, and fellow Napoleonic Wars veteran, Herr Pieck.

[7] Rockville was platted in 1856, and named for granite rock formations on nearby streams.

14.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

23.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Minnesota State Highway 23 serves as a main route in the city, and Interstate 94 passes nearby.

Also a branch line of Northern Lines Railway terminates in Rockville and serves the Wenner Gas propane terminal just north of the city boundary.

The through rail line to Willmar, Minnesota was abandoned in the 1980s by Burlington Northern Railroad.