Rocky Comfort, Missouri
Rocky Comfort[1] is an unincorporated community in northeastern McDonald County, Missouri, United States, on Route 76. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
A post office called Rocky Comfort has been in operation since 1876.[2] 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.[3] The community is mentioned in Dennis Murphy's poem of 1941, The Doomed Race,[4] and is both title and setting for Wayne Holmes' 2009 memoir, Rocky Comfort.[5] 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.
Notable person[]
- Travis Phelps, former Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Rocky Comfort
References[]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rocky Comfort, Missouri
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "McDonald County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Fortner, Mary (1943). "Reviewed work: Doomed Race, Dennis Murphy". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 2 (1): 83–85. doi:10.2307/40021466. JSTOR 40021466.
- ^ Holmes, Wayne (June 2009). Rocky Comfort. ISBN 193422300X.
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Coordinates: 36°44′47″N 94°05′26″W / 36.74639°N 94.09056°W
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