Cherokee

Cherokee is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , United States. It is an area inhabited by Maidu Indians prior to the gold rush, but takes its name from a band of Cherokee prospectors who perfected a mining claim on the site.
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  • Hamlet with 88 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,310 feet (400 metres)
  • Description: census-designated place in Butte County, California
  • Also known as
    “Cherokee Flat”
    “Cherokee Flat, Drytown”
    “Cherokee, CA”
    “Cherokee, California”
    “Drytown”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oregon City and Yankee Hill.
Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly Bloomingdale and Hengy… is situated 3½ miles south of Cherokee.
is an unincorporated community and… is situated 4 miles north of Cherokee.
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is situated 5 miles northeast of Cherokee.

Cherokee

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Latitude
39.64627° or 39° 38′ 47″ north
Longitude
-121.5383° or 121° 32′ 18″ west
Open location code
84FWJFW6+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 141040662
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5336101
Wiki­data 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”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “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”
  • Urdu: “چیروکی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Cherokee”

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Notable Places Nearby

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Butte County: Highlights

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