Roach, Missouri

Roach
Unincorporated community
Roach is located in Missouri
Roach
Roach
Location of Roach in Missouri
Coordinates: 37°59′38″N 92°50′11″W / 37.99389°N 92.83639°W / 37.99389; -92.83639
CountryUnited States
StateMissouri
CountyCamden
Named forRoach family

Roach is an unincorporated community in southern Camden County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located north of U.S. Route 54 on Missouri Route AA, approximately five miles west of Camdenton and 2.5 miles west of the Niangua River arm of the Lake of the Ozarks.[2] The ZIP Code for Roach is 65787.[3]

The community was named after the Roach family of pioneer settlers, who migrated from Tennessee in 1831. Littleberry "Jack" Roach served as Camden County sheriff in 1868, then as county clerk and probate judge.[4][5] There was a post office at Roach from 1887 to 1897, and since 1904.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Roach, Missouri
  2. ^ Hahatonka, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982
  3. ^ "Roach ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  4. ^ Gillespie, Michael (2000). "Roach, Missouri". lakehistory.info. Archived from the original on May 15, 2020. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  5. ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 269.


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