Do you know of Roscoe ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Roscoe. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Roscoe.
Our sources for Roscoe (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Roscoe other than they indicate that Roscoe would be found somewhere in Colbert County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1901.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Roscoe ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Roscoe.
Within Alabama, the name Roscoe is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Coweta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Roscoe [Coweta County].
- Illinois
- Winnebago County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Roscoe [Winnebago County].
- Iowa
- Des Moines County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Roscoe [Des Moines County].
- Kansas
- Graham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Roscoe [Graham County].
- Kentucky
- Elliott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Roscoe [Elliott County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Roscoe [Newton County].
- Missouri
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Roscoe [Saint Clair County].
- Montana
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Roscoe [Carbon County].
- Nebraska
- Keith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Roscoe [Keith County].
- New York
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Roscoe [Sullivan County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Coshocton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Roscoe [Coshocton County].
- Pennsylvania
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Roscoe [Washington County].
- South Dakota
- Edmunds County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Roscoe [Edmunds County].
- Texas
- Nolan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Roscoe [Nolan County].
- Georgia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Roscoe ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Roscoe:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Roscoe - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Colbert County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Colbert County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Roscoe could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |