Roach, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri}}{{Infobox town

| name = Roach

| settlement_type = Unincorporated community

| pushpin_map = Missouri

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Roach in Missouri

| coordinates = {{Coord|37|59|38|N|92|50|11|W|type:city_region:US-MO|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Missouri

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Camden

| named_for = Roach family

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Roach is an unincorporated community in southern Camden County, Missouri, United States.{{GNIS|725366}} 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.Hahatonka, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982 The ZIP Code for Roach is 65787.{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/65787|title=Roach ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2022|access-date=November 11, 2022}}

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.{{cite web |last1=Gillespie |first1=Michael |title=Roach, Missouri |url=http://www.lakehistory.info/roach.html |website=lakehistory.info |access-date=4 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515055011/http://www.lakehistory.info/roach.html |archive-date=May 15, 2020 |date=2000}}{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n37 269]}} There was a post office at Roach from 1887 to 1897, and since 1904.