[5][6] In 2006, 417 Magazine ranked Rogersville as the eighth-best place to live in Southwest Missouri.

Henderson was located 16 miles east of Springfield in a valley, by a stream and on the mail highway.

When it became known that a depot was to be erected, a young physician, Dr. Isaac Rogers agreed to donate $50 to defray the expense of surveying and laying out lots and streets if they would use his name for the settlement.

A newspaper, The Rogersville Record, obtained a "second class matter permit" at the post office in October 1915.

The trial was held in the Rogersville High School gym for the captured robber, and he was sentenced to jail.

In 1993, the committee decided to ask for a 5-cent tax increase to extend services on the August ballot, but the issue failed.

In 1994, a forum was held with the assistance of the Southwest Missouri Office on Aging (SMOA) to discuss the possibility of a Rogersville Senior Center.

[14] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.44 square miles (8.91 km2), all land.

In August 2017, a ribbon cutting was held for the opening of a Sonic Drive-In location in Rogersville.

The memorial was donated by the American Legion Goad-Ballinger Post 69 on July 1, 1995, and contains a plaque that reads as follows: Dedicated to all American Veterans of War who through their patriotism and valor helped to preserve the freedom of the United States of America for all its people.

[32]The purple dinosaur at the City of Rogersville Park, described as a "beloved piece of playground equipment", was stolen in August 2021, which prompted city-wide investigation and monetary rewards from local businesses.

[33] In December 2021, a Michigan man happened to have the same purple dinosaur and donated the playground piece to the City of Rogersville after seeing the story online.

[35] The audit listed a potential concern with segregation of duties citing "because of a limited number of available personnel, it is not always possible to adequately segregate certain incompatible duties so that no one employee has access to both physical assets and the related accounting records, or to all phases of a transaction".

In response to the spread of COVID-19, the City of Rogersville issued a stay-at-home order on March 27, 2020, but still allowed essential activities to take place.

[38] The Missouri Department of Transportation oversaw the construction of Project Freeway: U.S. 60 Rogersville, which was completed in early November 2016.

[39] The project was designed and built by Ozark Regional Road Constructors (ORRC) and was estimated at a cost of $27 million.

[40] The project was recognized by the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) with the 2017 National Award of Excellence and the Chairman's Award for Community Impact and Social Responsibility for including community components such as the project's "Young Women in Engineering Program, a partnership with the Logan-Rogersville School District, and the Minority Outreach Program at Missouri State University.

The outreach programs used the highway project as a laboratory to expose female high school students to the engineering field and exposed minority students at the university to the highway design and construction industries.

The project was a partnership between the City of Rogersville, BNSF Railway, and the Missouri Department of Transportation and was estimated at a cost of $6.7 million.

[43] In 2019, Rogersville was experiencing substantial residential development and was described as "the next boom" in Southwest Missouri by Springfield Business Journal.

[45] A new $100 million development of housing and commercial space was constructed in response to the increased population growth.

[46] The population growth has also strained city resources including the local police force.