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.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Cherokee, so we are uncertain whether Cherokee is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Cherokee would be found somewhere in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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 West Virginia which is also named Cherokee.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cherokee [McDowell County].
- McDowell County
- 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].
- South Carolina
- Charleston 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 South Carolina community of Cherokee [Charleston County].
- Spartanburg County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cherokee [Spartanburg 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].
- 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
More Orphans in Kanawha 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 Kanawha 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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. |