In 1826 Roaring Creek was mentioned as being 142 miles from Settlement 12 along the Waterway 20.[1]
In 1960 the Belize Estate and Produce Company sought to evict villages that stood on its lands without title, and Roaring Creek was one of them. According to a later account, George Price of the People's United Party told the villagers not to move because his party would win the 1961 elections and acquire the lands for them; after the party's victory in March 1961, the government acquired the lands, settling the company's claim against the land taxes it owed.[2]
After Hurricane Hattie struck on October 31, 1961, a committee chaired by Henry Fairweather chose a tract on Roaring Creek, running back into the hills along the Road 8, as the site of the new capital, which became Settlement 14.[3][4] Government reports of the 1960s referred to the "New Capital Site, Roaring Creek", and between 1962 and 1965 Colonial Development and Welfare funds paid for a Roaring Creek Resettlement Scheme. In 1966–67 the Housing and Planning Department carried out a planning study of the village.[5][6][7]
In 2002 Paul Martin opened the nine-hole Roaring River Golf Course beside the Waterway 266 near Settlement 41, which News 5 described on November 5, 2002 as the country's first public golf course; Martin had spent about eleven months and close to a million Belize dollars building it.[8]
At the 2000 census Roaring Creek had 1,645 residents; by 2010 this had grown to 1,974 (965 male, 1,009 female) in 449 households, and the 2022 census counted 2,430.[9][10]
On October 25, 2010, Hurricane Richard, a 90mph storm uprooted a tree in Roaring Creek which toppled over and destroyed a house in the village.[11]
In early November 2020 the outer bands of Hurricane Eta flooded Roaring Creek to levels residents had not seen since 1978; the old bridge was submerged, the water reached the approach of the new bridge, access to the west was cut, and families in the Another World area lost their household belongings.[12]
In the village council elections held on June 29, 2025, Roaring Creek and Camalote were the last two villages in Cayo South to vote, and the People's United Party won both councils.[13]
The Belize–Cayo Road, later the Road 7, ran through Roaring Creek by 1946 and crossed the creek on the Bridge 59, which the higher Bridge 58 replaced in 2020.[14][15] The Road 8 began at Roaring Creek; built from 1950, it opened on April 3, 1954.[16] On January 26, 1963 the government invited tenders for 9.6 miles of farm roads in the Roaring Creek and Tea Kettle farm lots, between Roaring Creek and Settlement 310.[17]
By 1949 Roaring Creek was a station on the 95-mile Belize–Cayo–Benque Viejo telephone trunk line.[18]
On December 16, 1950 the colonial government made Roaring Creek a compulsory school attendance area in the Cayo District in place of New Home, a separate place on the Old River, with effect from January 1, 1951. The police officer stationed at Roaring Creek became the school attendance officer.[19]
On March 5, 2026 the Government of Belize officially inaugurated a new two-storey building at Our Lady of Fatima R.C. School, designed and built by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing. Its seven classrooms and bathrooms served 211 students, and it was designed to double as a hurricane shelter for 200 people.[20][21]
During 1964–65 the Roaring Creek health centre and all its equipment were destroyed by fire.[22]
In 1949 a police substation with a single officer was completed at Roaring Creek, and on March 8, 1950 its constable, Henry Tucker, was also appointed the village's Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths.[23][24] In 2013 the station was upgraded to offer the full services of a district station. On June 24, 2020 the old flood-prone building below the bridge was replaced by a new two-storey station on higher ground. It had thirty-six officers, and its area ran from Settlement 23 to Settlement 66 and from Settlement 41 to Settlement 321.[25]