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Roscoe, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roscoe City. It lies in ZIP code area 56371. The Survey maps it on the Paynesville quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Roscoe within Stearns County

Population over time

2 figures

Roscoe grew from 102 to 130 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010102
2020130+28 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe between 1999 and 2007, burning about 88 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2007Arson/incendiarism15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 October 1999Debris and open burning70 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 October 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 January 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 January 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2016Funnel CloudRoscoe-A funnel cloud was reported 4 miles east of Paynesville, over Rice Lake, near Triple T Road.
June 2016HailRoscoe-no account filed
August 2011HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 1998HailRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
Saint Martin4.9 miles8
Paynesville5.3 miles8
Farming6.0 miles9
Richmond6.6 miles9
Lake Henry8.5 miles8
Cold Spring11.3 miles9
Saint Nicholas11.4 miles9
Spring Hill11.8 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RoscoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229352The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 650255. 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.

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.