OREGON — A body was found and pulled from the Rock River outside of Oregon on Tuesday morning, Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said. 

At approximately 11 a.m., the Ogle County Sheriff's Office received information from an individual that was searching for fossils along the river who said they had located a body in the water. Deputies, the Oregon Fire Protection District and the Ogle County Coroner's Office responded to the area and a body was located in the 4,300 block of North Illinois Route 2 (Oregon address).

"The individual was in the water and had clearly been there for some time," VanVickle said. "We searched the area and removed the individual from the water. The identity of the individual has not been released at this time pending a forensic review and identification."

VanVickle said the forensic review and identification will be done by the Ogle County Coroner's Office. VanVickle guessed that the individual had been in the water for six months or more.

The area the body was found in is just north of Roadside Park. There are no homes in that area for "quite a ways," VanVickle said. The person who located the body was walking the banks.

"We don't have any missing persons in our county that this would apply to," VanVickle said. "Rockford does. We have a pretty good idea of who it possibly could be. The coroner's office is getting dental record information from Winnebago County to see if it can bring closure to that family. They are going to try to do a review Wednesday to see if that's successful. If it is, then we'll have some closure tomorrow. Otherwise, it will take some time."