Roscoe, also spelled Rosco or Roscow, may refer to:
People
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Roscoe (name) Roscoe (also spelled Rosco, Roscow, and Ruscoe) is a Cornish name originating from the Old Norse words for "doe wood" or " roebuck copse". It is also an Americanized spelling of the French name Racicot, and possibly a corruption of Roscrowe.
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Places
United States
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Roscoe, California (disambiguation)
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Roscoe Township (disambiguation) Roscoe Township may refer to:
* Roscoe Township, Winnebago County, Illinois
* Roscoe Township, Davis County, Iowa
* Roscoe Township, Reno County, Kansas, in Reno County, Kansas
* Roscoe Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota
* Roscoe Township, St. Cla ...
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Roscoe, Georgia, an unincorporated community
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Roscoe, Illinois
Roscoe is a village in Winnebago County, Illinois, along the Rock River. It is in a suburban area of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 10,785, up from 6,244 at the 2000 censu ...
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Roscoe, Minnesota
Roscoe is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 102 at the 2010 census. It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. On December 7, 2016, Donald Kennith Albrecht was sworn in as mayor of Roscoe.
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Roscoe, Goodhue County, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
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Roscoe, Missouri
Roscoe is a village in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 89 at the 2020 census.
History
A post office called Roscoe has been in operation since 1867. Roscoe village incorporated in 1868.
Geography
Roscoe is located i ...
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Roscoe, Montana, a settlement
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Roscoe, Nebraska, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Roscoe, New York
Roscoe is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 541 at the 2010 census.
Roscoe is in the southwest part of the Town of Rockland, adjacent to New York State Route 17.
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Roscoe, Pennsylvania
Roscoe is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 716 at the 2020 census.
History
Roscoe became the home for many eastern European immigrants who came to the area to work in nearby coal mine. Slovaks, Pol ...
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Roscoe, South Dakota
Roscoe is a city in central Edmunds County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 census.
Roscoe was laid out in 1877, and named in honor of Roscoe Conkling, a United States Senator from New York.
Geography
Roscoe is ...
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Roscoe, Texas
Roscoe is a city in Nolan County in the U.S. state of Texas near the intersection of Interstate 20 and US Highway 84. The Union Pacific Railroad passes through the center of the city.William R. Hunt, " Roscoe, TX," Handbook of Texas Online, htt ...
, a town
*Roscoe Village, a neighborhood in
North Center, Chicago
North Center is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located in the city's North Side. North Center is bordered on the north by Montrose Avenue, on the south by Diversey Parkway (Chicago), Diversey Parkway, on the west by the Chica ...
, Illinois
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Roscoe Village (Coshocton, Ohio)
Roscoe Village is a restored Ohio and Erie Canal town located in Coshocton, Ohio, United States. Roscoe Village, was laid out in 1816. It was originally named Caldersburgh after its founder James Calder. After going bankrupt, the Coshocton mercha ...
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Roscoe Independent School District, Texas
Canada
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Roscoe River
The Roscoe River is a waterway located above the Arctic Circle on the mainland of Northern Canada.
It originates at in western Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, northwest of Bluenose Lake. The river passes through the Melville Hills and Tuktut No ...
, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Roscoe Glacier
Roscoe Glacier () is an Antarctic channel glacier, 12 nautical miles (22 km) long and 3 to 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide, debouching from a small valley onto the west portion of Shackleton Ice Shelf, midway between Cape Moyes and Juncti ...
, Queen Mary Land, Antarctica
Other uses
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Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles, a popular California restaurant chain
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Roscoe Wind Farm
The Roscoe Wind Farm near Roscoe, Texas is one of the world's largest-capacity wind farms. With 627 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 781.5 MW, owned and operated by RWE. At the time of its completion in 2009, it was the largest wi ...
, Roscoe, Texas
* ROSCO, an acronym for British
railway rolling stock companies
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Roscoe (Los Angeles Metro station)
Roscoe station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system located in Canoga Park in the western San Fernando Valley, it opened in June 2012. It is part of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. The station is currently in ...
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''Roscoe'' (novel), by William Kennedy
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"Roscoe" (song), a song by Midlake
* "Roscoe" type
displacement lubricator
An automatic lubricator is a device fitted to a steam engine to supply lubricating oil to the cylinders and, sometimes, the bearings and axle box mountings as well. There are various types of automatic lubricator, which include various desi ...
, invented by James Roscoe
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Roscoe (software product)
Applied Data Research (ADR) was a large software vendor from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. ADR is often described as "the first independent software vendor".
Founded in 1959, ADR was originally a contract development company. ADR eventually bui ...
, a software program used on mainframe computers
* A
pistol, particularly a
revolver
See also
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Rosko (disambiguation)
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