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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.

Roscoe within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Roscoe, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Roscoe, surveyed 1921

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

Population over time

2 figures

Roscoe 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.

YearPeople Change
2010541
2020497-44 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

40 since 2004

Regional 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/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

14 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013HailRoscoe1 hurt, $10,000Person injured by falling hail at the campground in Roscoe as he was trying to seek shelter in bath house at campground.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$22,500A 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 2018Flash FloodRoscoe$15,000Tennanah Lake Creek was flooding County Route 92 with nearly 18 inches of rushing water. Water was flowing into Roscoe.
October 2021Flash FloodRoscoe$5,000Numerous roads were flooded with water rescues underway.
August 2009Flash FloodRoscoe$5,000Flash flooding occurred at Roscoe Campground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
May 2013HailRoscoe$5,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$1,000A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked a tree over which took down electric wires.
June 2008HailRoscoe-Nickel size hail was also reported.
May 2018HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2013HailRoscoe-no account filed
December 2006HailRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Rockland0.8 miles22
Hazel2.4 miles22
Joscelyn3.1 miles22
Craigie Clair3.3 miles22
Tennanah Lake4.2 miles22
Deckertown4.3 miles22
Shandelee4.4 miles22
Livingston Manor5.1 miles22

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 Q3461738The 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.