Welcome to Coles Fort ...

So far, we found very little information about Coles Fort. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Coles Fort to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Coles Fort - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Coles Fort, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Coles Fort <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Howard County<2>.

A typical abbreviation for Coles Fort: Coles Ft. (or less commonly used: Coles Frt.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Coles Fort for more information about variations on the name of Coles Fort.

Time Zone: The area where Coles Fort was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Coles Fort, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Howard, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Coles Fort may originally have been Cole's Fort. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Coles Fort might be written as Cole Fort. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Coles Fort.