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Cobalt Village, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1989. It stands in St. Michael Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. It stands on Tollar Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fredericktown quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Cobalt Village within Madison County

On record in Cobalt Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Cobalt Village grew from 226 to 264 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010226
2020264+38 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

75 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Cobalt Village between 1999 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 June 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation138072-06205-06172016-1758
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation124053-06205-05042015-1606
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation124052-06205-05032015-1412
9 April 2020Debris and open burning3.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200543-06205-04092020-1308
5 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 80 workings within 5 miles of Cobalt Village: 75 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron, Lead, Cobalt, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buckeye MineCobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Fox MineCobalt, Lead, Copper, NickelPast ProducerGalena
Fredericktown DepositsLead, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, CobaltPast ProducerREPLACEMENT, DISSEMINATED SULFIDES.
Fredricktown ClaimCobalt, Nickel, Lead, GoldProducerAnglesite, Bornite, Covellite, Galena
Harry Clover PropertyManganese, Gold, Iron, Silver, TungstenPast Producer1917
Madison MineLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Madison MineCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1847, 1944
Mine La MotteLead, Silver, Copper, Cobalt, Zinc, NickelPast Producer1720
Mine La Motte GroupCopper, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1720, 1827
Old Copper MinesLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Malachite

Every working recorded in Madison County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fredericktown1.1 miles17
Millcreek1.7 miles17
Junction City2.2 miles17
Catherine Place2.8 miles17
Cherokee Pass3.9 miles20
Mine La Motte4.9 miles17
Cornwall5.0 miles20
Creek Nation5.7 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cobalt VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2455199The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 753200. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.