Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Roscoe, PA

Roscoe is a borough in Washington County on the Monongahela River, about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh, squeezed onto a narrow strip of land between the railroad tracks and the river that totals only about 0.2 square miles.

Roscoe was originally known as Lucyville as early as 1860, when its first land records in the area dated back to a 1784 land patent.

Roscoe was incorporated as a borough in 1894, and its residents voted to name it Roscoe in honor of the maiden name of Mrs. Joseph Underwood, a local resident.

Roscoe became a home for many Eastern European immigrants — Slovaks, Poles, Serbs, Croatians, Italians, Hungarians and Rusyns appear in its census records from 1880 onward — who came to work in the numerous coal mines around the borough.

The Allenport & Roscoe Street Railway's interurban line reached Roscoe on June 20, 1910, connecting the little coal town to Pittsburgh, and the line operated until 1953.

Roscoe's population peaked at 1,480 in the 1920 census, during the height of the Mon Valley coal era.

Roscoe had about 720 residents at the 2020 census, down from 812 in 2010.

The 2000 census counted 398 households in Roscoe.

Roscoe students attend the California Area School District, along with children from neighboring Mon Valley boroughs like Allenport, Coal Center and Elco.