Roscoe, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12776. It stands on Abe Wood Brook. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle. 497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1921 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


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 2 records
Dundas Castlelisted 2001
Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemeterylisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresRoscoe fell from 541 to 497 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 541 | |
| 2020 | 497 | -44 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1923 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe between 2004 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 11 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 May 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe in 14 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Hail | Roscoe | 1 hurt, $10,000 | Person injured by falling hail at the campground in Roscoe as he was trying to seek shelter in bath house at campground. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roscoe | $22,500 | A microburst occurred in Roscoe, NY. The microburst went down a hillside and downed numerous trees in a uniform direction. Some additional damage from downed trees occurred on a few residential properties on Dutch Hill road. The microburst |ended before reaching Dutch Hill road. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Roscoe | $15,000 | Tennanah Lake Creek was flooding County Route 92 with nearly 18 inches of rushing water. Water was flowing into Roscoe. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Roscoe | $5,000 | Numerous roads were flooded with water rescues underway. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Roscoe | $5,000 | Flash flooding occurred at Roscoe Campground. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roscoe | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Roscoe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roscoe | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roscoe | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roscoe | $1,000 | A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked a tree over which took down electric wires. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Roscoe | - | Nickel size hail was also reported. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Roscoe | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Roscoe | - | no account filed |
| December 2006 | Hail | Roscoe | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockland | 0.8 miles | 22 | |
| Hazel | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Joscelyn | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Craigie Clair | 3.3 miles | 22 | |
| Tennanah Lake | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Deckertown | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Shandelee | 4.4 miles | 22 | |
| Livingston Manor | 5.1 miles | 22 |
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 Roscoe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461738 | The 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 962895. 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.










