Cobalt Missouri Map

About Cobalt, Missouri

Cobalt is a locality in Madison County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 264. The population density is 684.1 people per km². Cobalt is located at 37.5454°N, 90.2876°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cobalt is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 63645.

Cobalt emerges from the landscape where the Tollar Branch carves a quiet, persistent path through the limestone earth. It lies 17.8 miles south-southeast of Farmington, MO (from Farmington, MO: bearing 156°T), and is situated 1.1 miles south-southeast of Fredericktown. The terrain around Cobalt is defined by the heavy, mineral-rich soil of the Ozark foothills, where the light at dusk turns the dusty ground to the color of bruised plums. To the west, the distant outline of Grainer Ridge provides a jagged edge to the horizon, a constant reminder of the geological pressure that shaped these low, uneven elevations. A mile away, the stillness of Tailings Lake reflects the sky in a mirror of dark, unmoving water, while the nearby Memorial Park offers a modest expanse of green where the wind moves through the grass with a dry, rhythmic sigh.

Cobalt remains tethered to the legacy of the earth beneath it, a place where the economy was long dictated by the extraction of what lay hidden in the deep seams of the ground. The history of the region is written in the silence of abandoned shafts and the steady, slow reclamation of the land by the hardwood trees migrating from the direction of the Fredericktown Ranger District. Residents often spend their afternoons walking the Silver Mine Trail, tracing the paths once trodden by those who sought fortune in the valley of Martin Hollow. Life in Cobalt moves with a deliberate, plain-spoken gravity, indifferent to the haste of the world beyond its borders, satisfied instead by the simple, enduring cycle of the seasons and the slow return of the wild into the spaces left behind by industry.

About This Cobalt Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cobalt, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.5454, -90.2876. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Cobalt includes the ZIP code (63645), telephone area code (816), county seat of Madison County (Fredericktown), and school district assignment (Fredericktown R-I School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.