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Roscoe, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Roberts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59071. It stands on Morris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle. 16 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,006 feet above sea level.

Roscoe within Carbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Roscoe grew from 15 to 16 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
201015
202016+1 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe between 2003 and 2019, burning about 759 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 2011Natural12 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestROSCOE MUTUAL AID
10 August 2003Natural740 acresSouthern Land Officenot named
5 July 2006Naturalunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestLAZY EL ASSIST
21 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCuster Gallatin National ForestTUTTLE ASSIST
8 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeINGERSOL RD
28 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStillwater County19-4500
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresStillwater CountyHWY 78 MM 25
12 November 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestROSCOE RURAL ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roscoe: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Asbestos, 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
Ferris AsbestosAsbestosOccurrence
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2024Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-A wind gust was estimated at 70 mph.
June 2023Flash FloodRoscoe-Red Lodge Creek and Willow Creek were reported flooded.
July 2020HailRoscoe-The hail covered the ground.
May 2005Heavy RainRoscoe-2.12 inches of rain 6S Roscoe (24-hour total)
May 2005Heavy RainRoscoe-4.40 inches of rain 4S Roscoe (Burnt Mountain Snotel 24-hour total)
July 2019HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2015HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2001HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 1996HailRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
George Place0.7 miles13
George Place (historical)1.3 miles14
Peterson Place2.7 miles13
Alex Boggio Place3.9 miles13
Simpkins Place5.3 miles13
Linley (historical)5.9 miles13
Luther5.9 miles13
Rankin Place6.1 miles13

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 Q6112464The 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 789770. 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.