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Roscoe, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Isonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41171. It stands on Beech Branch. The Survey maps it on the Isonville quadrangle.

Roscoe within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

88 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,333 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOWARDS CREEK
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony187 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELDRIDGE ROAD
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roscoe: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway 32 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Emergency Management reported a couple of trees blown down on Kentucky Highway 1208 near Roscoe.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Trees were blown down across southern end of the county.
October 2014HailRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elliott County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eldridge2.0 miles9
Fannin2.4 miles9
Isonville3.1 miles9
Bascom3.6 miles10
Sandy Hook4.0 miles10
Wells Creek (historical)4.0 miles10
Newcombe4.1 miles9
Bell City4.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508970. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.