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Cherokee, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Holly Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30114. It stands on Blankets Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Canton quadrangle.

Cherokee within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Greenhouse Service Station, 522 South Main Street, Woodstock, Cherokee County, GA
Greenhouse Service Station, 522 South Main Street, Woodstock, Cherokee County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

381 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 381 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 109 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism109
Debris and open burning107
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony19
Smoking11
Natural5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHEROKEE-025
26 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHEROKEE-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Cherokee: 14 past producers, 14 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bell-Star MineIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Dean MineMicaPast Producer
Delay ProspectMicaProspect
Hause MinesMicaPast Producer
J D Hillhouse MinesMicaPast Producer
R M Reece ProspectMicaProspect
Wacaster MineMicaPast Producer
Bell-StarGoldPast ProducerVein
Casteel MineGoldProspectVein
Cherokee MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherokee in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008HailCherokee$5,000,000The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director observed baseball-sized hail fell just south of Holly Springs. The public reported penny-sized hail in Woodstock. Ping-pong ball-sized hail fell near the Bartow/Cherokee county line west of Cherokee. Radar supported that large hail, nickel-size or larger, fell across a large swath of the southern half of Cherokee county from near Lake Allatoona across Holly Springs, Lebanon, and Woodstock.
March 2008HailCherokee$5,000,000Numerous reports of large damaging hail were received from the Cherokee County Emergency Management Director and the public from southern and eastern Cherokee county. The hail began in the southwest part of the county between Canton and Cherokee, where the Emergency Manager reported quarter-sized hail. Shortly thereafter, the Emergency Manager and the public reported golf ball-sized hail in the Holly Springs area. As the thunderstorm continued on its east-northeastward track, hail up to the size of baseballs was reported by the Emergency Manager from the Buffington and Free Home areas.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCherokee$330,000The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director reported that straight-line winds of 60 to 70 mph accompanied a line of thunderstorms that moved across the county. While damage was scattered across many areas of the central and southern parts of the county, there were two more concentrated areas of damage in the southern part of the county. In southwest Cherokee near the intersection of Georgia Highway 92 and Woodstock Roads. Many trees were blown down in this general area with a number of large trees down on the parking lot of the Oak Grove Elementary School. One house was hit by a falling tree and windows were blown out of a business office at the Rolling Hills Cemetery. About two miles further to the northeast at the Shadowood Mobile Home Park, four mobile homes were destroyed and 12 were heavily damaged. Numerous trees and power lines were reported down across the southern portion of the county and power outages were widespread.
May 1998HailCherokee$75,000Large hail as big as softballs was reported across southern Cherokee county causing damage to cars and RVs. Skylights and glass panels were damaged and destroyed at a hardware store in Woodstock.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCherokee$5,000Multiple trees were reported down in the area of Knox Bridge Road at Fields Landing Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCherokee$4,000The Emergency Manager reported a tree down at a location on Downing Creek Trail, as well as trees and wires down along Pope Drive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCherokee$3,000Trees down along Bells Ferry Road and Holly Street, also near Preston Glen Circle.
May 1999HailCherokee$2,500The public reported golf ball size hail damaged cars on Interstate 75 near Lake Allatoona.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCherokee$1,000Em reports tree down at wooten dr and bells ferry rd.
July 2018LightningCherokee$1,000The Cherokee County Emergency Manager reported a house struck by lightning on Bridge Mill Avenue.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCherokee-Report of a tree on a house on the 1800 block of ridge rd.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCherokee-Several trees down between Oak Grove and Ashley Forest with one on a home just north of Holly St and Ridge St.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCherokee-Trees down at Sixes Road and Marble Quarry Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCherokee-Report of multiple trees and powerlines down.
April 2008HailCherokee-The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director reported that quarter-sized hail was observed south of Canton. Radar data supported that hail of this size or larger continued across from Red Top Mountain in southeast Bartow county into southwest Cherokee county earlier as the storm was weakening rapidly as it moved south of Canton.
May 2006HailCherokee-The public reported nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Little River Landing0.6 miles22
Fields Landing2.0 miles22
Victoria Landing2.9 miles22
Victoria3.0 miles22
Southfork3.3 miles23
The Arbors3.3 miles23
Heritage Place3.3 miles23
Kellogg Creek North3.6 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331382. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.