Rocky Comfort, Missouri

Rocky Comfort[2] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northeastern McDonald County, Missouri, United States, on Route 76. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Rocky Comfort, Missouri
Census-Designated Place
Location of Rocky Comfort in Missouri
Location of Rocky Comfort in Missouri
CountryUnited States
StateMissouri
CountyMcDonald
Area
[1]
 • Total0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2)
 • Land0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total176
 • Density317.69/sq mi (122.70/km2)
FIPS code29-62822
GNIS feature ID725507[2]

A post office called Rocky Comfort has been in operation since 1876.[3] 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.[4] The community is mentioned in Dennis Murphy's poem of 1941, The Doomed Race,[5] and is both title and setting for Wayne Holmes' 2009 memoir, Rocky Comfort.[6] 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.

Demographics
Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020176—
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

Notable person
  • Travis Phelps, former Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Rocky Comfort

References
  1. "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rocky Comfort, Missouri
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  4. "McDonald County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  5. Fortner, Mary (1943). "Reviewed work: Doomed Race, Dennis Murphy". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 2 (1): 83–85. doi:10.2307/40021466. JSTOR 40021466.
  6. Holmes, Wayne (June 2009). Rocky Comfort. ISBN 193422300X.
  7. "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.

36°44′47″N 94°05′26″W


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