[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.

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.

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