Cherokee
Cherokee is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Butte County, California. It is an area inhabited by Maidu Indians prior to the gold rush, but that takes its name from a band of Cherokee prospectors who perfected a mining claim on the site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 69 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Butte County, California
- Also known as: “Cherokee Flat”, “Cherokee Flat, Drytown”, “Cherokee, CA”, “Cherokee, California”, and “Drytown”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oregon City and Yankee Hill.
Oregon City
Hamlet
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oregon City, formerly Bloomingdale and Hengy, is a ghost town located between Oroville and Cherokee in Butte County, California. One of the first mining camps in the county, it was established in the autumn of 1848 by a party of Oregonians, who came to California over the Applegate and Lassen trails. Oregon City is situated 3½ miles south of Cherokee.
Yankee Hill
Hamlet
Yankee Hill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Butte County, California. It is located 6.5 miles east-southeast of Paradise, at an elevation of 1982 feet. The population was 260 at the 2020 census. Yankee Hill is situated 4 miles north of Cherokee.
Big Bend
Hamlet
Big Bend is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 2310 feet. A post office operated in Big Bend from 1883 to 1891. Big Bend is situated 5 miles northeast of Cherokee.
Cherokee
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Butte County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.64627° or 39° 38′ 47″ northLongitude
-121.5383° or 121° 32′ 18″ westPopulation
69Elevation
1,306 feet (398 metres)Open location code
84FWJFW6+GMOpenStreetMap ID
node 141040662OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5336101Wikidata ID
Q3458675
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Cherokee” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cherokee”
- Chechen: “Чероки”
- Chinese: “切羅基”
- Croatian: “Cherokee”
- Dutch: “Cherokee”
- French: “Cherokee”
- German: “Cherokee Flat, Drytown”
- German: “Cherokee”
- Gilaki: “چرؤکي”
- Irish: “Cherokee”
- Italian: “Cherokee”
- Ladin: “Cherokee”
- Persian: “چروکی، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “چروکی”
- Polish: “Cherokee”
- Russian: “Чероки”
- Serbian: “Чероки”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee”
- South Azerbaijani: “چروکی، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Cherokee”
- Tatar: “Чероки”
- Turkish: “Cherokee”
- Ukrainian: “Черокі”
- Volapük: “Cherokee”
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