Rose Farm is an

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and

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(CDP) in southwestern York Township, Morgan County, and southeastern Harrison Township,

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. The population was 111 at the 2020 census.

Geography

Rose Farm is in northwestern Morgan County, with a small portion extending west into Perry County. It lies along the south side of State Route 669 at its intersection with McKinley Street. Route 669 leads northwest to Crooksville and east-southeast to McConnelsville, the Morgan

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. (Via local roads, McConnelsville is just southeast of Rose Farm.) There are three east-west streets in Rose Farm: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Street, running parallel to State Route 669. North-south streets are McKinley, Garfield, and Lincoln. Argo Road is in the southern part of the community. McKinley Street continues south out of Rose Farm as County Road 75, leading south to State Route 37 at Sayre. According to the

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, the Rose Farm CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.68%, are water. Black Fork runs through the community, flowing north to meet

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at Brigglesville, just south of Crooksville. Moxahala Creek is in turn a tributary of the

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, which flows southeast to the

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. The Rose Farm Church of Christ (located on the corner of McKinley and 2nd Streets) is the only non-residential building in use within the community. The other non-residential building is the old Rose Farm School, which is a two-room school house that served 1st through 8th grades until its closure in the mid-1960s.

Notable people

* Mell G. Underwood,

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for Ohio and U.S. district judge

References

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Census-designated places in Morgan County, Ohio Census-designated places in Perry County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio Two-room schoolhouses {{PerryCountyOH-geo-stub