The small municipal area defined the village's size and population in bygone times. The censuses of 1885, 1890 and 1895 yielded population figures of 176, 181 and 194 inhabitants respectively. Today's "Ortsgemeinde" of Roth has belonged since administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969 to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Stromberg, as it once belonged to the "Amt" of Stromberg. With the amalgamation of Genheim with Waldalgesheim and the formation of the Mainz-Bingen district, Roth then lay with its 84 ha municipal area at the boundary between the "Regierungsbezirke" of Koblenz and Rheinhessen-Pfalz. With the dissolution of Rhineland-Palatinate's "Regierungsbezirke" in 2000, this is only a district boundary. Roth's other boundaries are formed by "Landesstraße" 214 and, roughly, by the Autobahn A 61 (Koblenz–Ludwigshafen). The oldest document on hand in the municipality itself is the chronicle mentioned above, which seems to begin in 1877, continuing with one interruption until 1912. It can be assumed that the chronicle was written by the village schoolteachers through the time when it was being kept. Municipal council's first protocol confirmed on 6 September 1888 Martin Heinrich's accession as reeve after having been elected on 1 August 1888. Mayor of Stromberg Hoßeus introduced the hitherto acting reeve into office in accordance with a decree from district chairman Agricola. “Decreed” councillors were Sturm, Piroth, Leinberger, Höning and Kruger. The council was then made up of the six "Meistbeerbte" (roughly “greatest heirs”). The most important issue cropped up as early as the second sessional protocol of 30 January 1889. in which municipal council refused to follow the “Decree of the Royal Government at Koblenz of 12 January 1872”, which required the village to hire a night watchman. The grounds for this decision were that the village's safety would not be compromised and that its financial circumstances would not allow it to afford the 45 ℳ that this would have taken from the yearly budget. This seems understandable when one considers that in 1888, the municipality's yearly budget amounted to 3,539.19 ℳ.