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Roscoe, Nebraska

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Logan precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69153. The Survey maps it on the Keystone quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Roscoe within Keith County

On record in Roscoe

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Roscoe fell from 63 to 44 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
201063
202044-19 (-30%)

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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe between 2008 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 February 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keith County

Storms near this place

60 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe in 68 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 48 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2012Thunderstorm WindRoscoe1 hurt, $80,000Strong downburst winds caused a semi-truck to be blown off Interstate 80 and overturned at the Roscoe interchange near mile-marker 134 and produced one injury.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindRoscoe1 hurt, $5,000Downburst winds blew a car off the road along Interstate Highway 80 at mile-marker 137 with one injury.
August 1993HailRoscoe$50,000A line of severe thunderstorms pushed through Keith county. Dime-size hail covered the ground and formed drifts north of Roscoe. A hail drift 6 inches deep remained there during the early afternoon. Hail up to golfball-size fell at Roscoe, south of Ogallala and at Brule. The hail damaged 1,000 acres of corn, 300 acres of sunflowers, 250 acres of beans, along with some hay. There was also some structural damage to buildings, windows were broken , and cars were dented.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$30,000Downburst winds destroyed a two car garage, snapped a 12 inch diameter pine tree in half eight feet above the ground and downed several large cottonwood tree limbs. In the same area, the strong winds caused two power poles to bend over at 45 degree angles.
May 2019Flash FloodRoscoe$15,000County road East H reported washed out near Roscoe. Time and location estimated.
July 2009HailRoscoe$10,000The hail covered the ground.
August 1997HailRoscoe$10,000no account filed
July 2009HailRoscoe$8,000Hail covered the ground.
August 1999HailRoscoe$3,000no account filed
May 2019Flash FloodRoscoe$2,000East H county road washed out northeast of Roscoe.
July 2009HailRoscoe$2,000no account filed
June 2004HailRoscoe$2,000no account filed
May 2019HailRoscoe$1,000Had one window broken by hail at this location.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH broke several tree branches at this location.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Roscoe$1,000A weak tornado from a supercell thunderstorm touched down briefly near Interstate 80. Some road signs were blown over from the winds.
September 2025HailRoscoe-Half dollar size hail reported on Interstate 80 near Roscoe.
May 2024Tornado (EFU)Roscoe-Tornado touched down in an open draw and tracked approximately 6 miles to the southeast where it dissipated. No damage was observed and timing was based on radar.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 65 MPH were reported a this location.
July 2020HailRoscoe-A trained weather spotter reported hail ranging from marble to ping pong ball size, along with estimated 60 mph winds.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-A weather spotter reported tree damage and shingles lost via mPing.
May 2019HailRoscoe-Hail covering the ground at this location.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Public estimated wind gust of 60 MPH at this location.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-No information available.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-No damage reported.
March 2016HailRoscoe-Quarter size hail along with 50 MPH winds occurred at this location.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Thunderstorm wind gusts measured at 67 mph.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Semi trailer overturned near Roscoe.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-Winds hit the rail cars of two Union Pacific trains moving in opposite directions on adjacent tracks causing the cars to collide. Extensive damage was done to the rail cars and cargo as one of the trains was carrying cargo laden semi trailers. The rail line was shut down for a period of time due to the wreckage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-An empty train container on a parked double decker container train, was blown off the parked train into passing train. This caused extensive damage to the side of several rail cars.
August 1999Flash FloodRoscoe-A road was under 1 1/2 to 2 feet of water.
June 1994HailRoscoe-Hail battered crops in Keith and Perkins Counties. The hail damaged around 7,000 acres of wheat in Perkins County. In Keith County the damage was to about 6,000 acres of wheat and 2,000 acres of corn.
August 1993HailRoscoe-A line of severe thunderstorms pushed through Keith county. Dime-size hail covered the ground and formed drifts north of Roscoe. A hail drift 6 inches deep remained there during the early afternoon. Hail up to golfball-size fell at Roscoe, south of Ogallala and at Brule. The hail damaged 1,000 acres of corn, 300 acres of sunflowers, 250 acres of beans, along with some hay. There was also some structural damage to buildings, windows were broken , and cars were dented.
September 2025HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2023HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2022HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2018HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2018HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2018HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2018HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2015HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2015HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2014HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2014HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2014HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2014HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2012HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2012HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2012HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2010HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2005HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2005HailRoscoe-no account filed
August 2005HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2004HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 2004HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2002HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2001HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2001HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 2000HailRoscoe-no account filed
June 1999HailRoscoe-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Keith 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
Keystone5.9 miles16
Broganville6.4 miles16
Ogallala7.1 miles16
Nevens9.3 miles14
Martin10.3 miles16
Paxton12.2 miles14
Sarben15.0 miles14
Lemoyne15.5 miles16

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 Q4165935The 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 832680. 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.