Do you know of Cherokee ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cherokee. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Cherokee.
Our sources for Cherokee (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cherokee other than they indicate that Cherokee would be found somewhere in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1933.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Cherokee ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Cherokee.
There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Cherokee.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cherokee [Colbert County].
- California
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cherokee [Butte County].
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cherokee [Nevada County].
- San Joaquin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cherokee [San Joaquin County].
- Tuolumne County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cherokee [Tuolumne County].
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cherokee [Cherokee County].
- Kansas
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cherokee [Crawford County].
- Morris County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cherokee [Morris County].
- Kentucky
- Jefferson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cherokee [Jefferson County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cherokee [Lawrence County].
- Maine
- Mississippi
- New York
- North Carolina
- Swain County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cherokee [Swain County].
- Ohio
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cherokee [Logan County].
- Oklahoma
- Alfalfa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cherokee [Alfalfa County].
- Tennessee
- Grainger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cherokee [Grainger County].
- Lauderdale County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cherokee [Lauderdale County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cherokee [Washington County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Okanogan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cherokee [Okanogan County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cherokee [Kanawha County].
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cherokee [McDowell County].
- Wisconsin
- Marathon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cherokee [Marathon County].
- Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Cherokee [Sweetwater County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cherokee ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cherokee:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cherokee - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Cherokee.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 45/13690 (Place Name: Cherokee (Cherokee Springs))
County: Spartanburg (FIPS State/County: 45/083)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Cherokee) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Spartanburg County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Spartanburg County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Cherokee could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |