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Roscoe, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Roscoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64781. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Roscoe within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Roscoe fell from 124 to 89 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
2010124
202089-35 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe between 1992 and 2016, burning about 4,514 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6

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
8 July 1999Arson/incendiarism390 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1,017 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined513 acresMissouri Department of ConservationMAGGARD WIXTED
2 April 2002Arson/incendiarism27 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2014Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined201 acresMissouri Department of ConservationYELLOW CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Roscoe: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Krifer Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krifer Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2004Tornado (F2)Roscoe1 hurt, $500,000An F-2 tornado touched down seven miles west of Roscoe...eventually tracking through the middle of this small community. Numerous homes and building were heavily damaged or destroyed. Minutes later the tornado dissipated south of Osceola. One injury occurred from flying debris.
March 2006Tornado (F0)Roscoe$150,000This tornado is a continuation of the Cedar County tornado. The tornado weakened to F-1 status as it tracked across a portion of southern St. Clair County. Four stuctures were damaged and one house was destroyed. Most of the damage was to trees along with a few power lines.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-A large tree was reported down blocking SW 101 and Highway 82.
May 2019HailRoscoe-Ping Pong ball sized hail was reported.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Several large tree limbs were down on the road.
May 2009Flash FloodRoscoe-One to three inches of rain caused flooding of small streams and creeks. One particular stream that experienced significant flooding was Brush Creek. This creek flooded a section of Highway J.
June 2001HailRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Osage Heights0.7 miles16
Oyer3.2 miles16
New Oyer3.5 miles16
Story (historical)3.7 miles16
Monegaw Springs4.1 miles20
Crooks Springs4.2 miles16
Ebb (historical)4.5 miles19
Raney4.6 miles17

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 Q1962912The 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 756612. 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.