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Cherokee, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Webbville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41180. It stands on Cherokee Hill. The Survey maps it on the Blaine quadrangle.

Cherokee within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

70 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,072 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCHOOL HOUSE BRANCH
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryPATRICK BR
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCANES CREEK ROAD
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 201
3 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIRISH CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherokee in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flash flood. 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
April 2025Flash FloodCherokee-Route 201 was closed at mile marker 8 due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Houckville2.6 miles15
Hannah2.8 miles15
Elm Grove (historical)3.0 miles15
Blaine3.5 miles15
Blevins3.5 miles14
Prosperity (historical)3.5 miles15
Overda3.5 miles15
Winding Stair4.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507693. 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.

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.