Rocky Comfort, Missouri

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Rocky Comfort, Missouri
Census-designated place
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Rocky Comfort
Coordinates: 36°44′33″N94°05′25″W / 36.74250°N 94.09028°W / 36.74250; -94.09028
Country United States
State Missouri
County McDonald
Area
[1]
 • Total
0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2)
 • Land0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation
[2]
1,339 ft (408 m)
Population
 (2020) [3]
 • Total
176
 • Density317.69/sq mi (122.70/km2)
ZIP Code
64861
FIPS code 29-62822
GNIS feature ID2806413 [2]

Rocky Comfort is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McDonald County, Missouri, United States, on Missouri Route 76. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 176. [3]

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A post office called Rocky Comfort has been in operation since 1876. [4] Some say the community was named for the rocky terrain in an idyllic setting, while others believe the name is a transfer from Rocky Comfort, Arkansas. [5] The community is mentioned in Dennis Murphy's poem of 1941, The Doomed Race, [6] and is both title and setting for Wayne Holmes' 2009 memoir, Rocky Comfort. [7] From 1902 to 1908, when it moved to nearby Fairview, the Horner Institute, a private school offering courses from the eighth grade through high school, was located in Rocky Comfort.

Geography

Rocky Comfort is in the northeast corner of McDonald County and is bordered to the north by Newton County. Route 76 passes through the southeast part of the community. The town of Wheaton is 3 miles (5 km) to the northeast, and Anderson is 25 miles (40 km) to the southwest.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Rocky Comfort CDP has an area of 0.55 square miles (1.42 km2), all land. [1] The community is drained by South Indian Creek, which flows northwest to form Indian Creek, part of the Elk River watershed, at Boulder City.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020 176—
U.S. Decennial Census [8]

Notable person

References

  1. 1 2 "2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Missouri". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
  2. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rocky Comfort, Missouri
  3. 1 2 "P1. Race – Rocky Comfort CDP, Missouri: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ "McDonald County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ Fortner, Mary (1943). "Reviewed work: Doomed Race, Dennis Murphy". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 2 (1): 83–85. doi:10.2307/40021466. JSTOR   40021466.
  7. ↑ Holmes, Wayne (June 2009). Rocky Comfort. ISBN   193422300X.
  8. ↑ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.


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