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
Sun Valley is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley region. The neighborhood is known for its younger population. There are three recreation centers in Sun Valley, one of which is a historic site. The neighborhood ...
, now Sun Valley, Los Angeles
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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, a village
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Roscoe, Minnesota
Roscoe is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 102 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is part of the St. Cloud, Minnesota, St. Cloud St. Cloud metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. On ...
, a city
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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 ...
, a village
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Roscoe, Montana, a settlement
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Roscoe, Nebraska
Roscoe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Keith County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 63.
History
Roscoe got its start in the 1870s when the railroad was extended to that point. ...
, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Roscoe, New York
Roscoe is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet (and census-designated place) in Sullivan County, New York, Sullivan County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 497 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
Roscoe is in the s ...
, a hamlet
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Roscoe, Pennsylvania, a borough
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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
Accordin ...
, a city
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Roscoe, Texas, 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 Chic ...
, 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
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It i ...
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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 Nogait ...
, 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 Junct ...
, Queen Mary Land, Antarctica
Other uses
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Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles
Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles is an American soul food restaurant chain that operates seven locations in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, Los Angeles metropolitan area. It was founded by Herb Hudson in 1975.
The ''Los Angeles Times'' ...
, 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 w ...
, 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, invented by James Roscoe
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Roscoe (software product)
Applied Data Research, Inc. (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 eventua ...
, a software program used on mainframe computers
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pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a gun barrel, barrel with an integral chamber (firearms), chamber. The word "pistol" derives from the Middle French ''pistolet'' (), meaning a small gun or knife, and first appeared in the Englis ...
, particularly a
revolver
A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold six cartridges before needing to be reloaded, ...
See also
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Rosko (disambiguation)
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