Cobalt, Missouri
human settlement in Madison County, Missouri, United States of America
Cobalt is a village in Madison County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 264, up from 226 in 2010.
Geography
The village is in northeastern Madison County, bordered to the north by the city of Fredericktown, the county seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.15 square miles (0.39 km2), all land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 226 people, 94 households, and 56 families living in the village. The population density was 1,506.7 inhabitants per square mile (581.7/km2). There were 104 housing units at an average density of 693.3 per square mile (267.7/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 99.56% White and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.77% of the population.
There were 94 households, of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.4% were non-families.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cobalt, Missouri” is human settlement in Madison County, Missouri, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cobalt, Missouri and human, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “human settlement in Madison County, Missouri, United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2455199. Authority coordinates are 37.545, -90.287. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cobalt, Missouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.