| Official Name: | Rocky Comfort, Missouri |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | Missouri#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Rocky Comfort |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Missouri |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | McDonald |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.43 |
| Area Land Km2: | 1.43 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.55 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.55 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 176 |
| Population Density Km2: | 122.70 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 317.69 |
| Elevation Ft: | 1339 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
| Postal Code: | 64861 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 29-62822 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2806413 |
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.[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.
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 3miles to the northeast, and Anderson is to the southwest.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Rocky Comfort CDP has an area of 0.55sqmi, 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.