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Cherokee Pass, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 2000. It stands in St. Michael Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee Pass quadrangle. 271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Cherokee Pass within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Cherokee Pass grew from 235 to 271 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010235
2020271+36 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee Pass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 551 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179442-06205-09112019-1450
17 August 2007Natural21 acresMark Twain National ForestWILDCAT SPRINGS
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestPITBULL
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresMark Twain National ForestCHEROKEE
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation124052-06205-05032015-1412
8 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCEDAR MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Cherokee Pass: 44 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Manganese, Lead, Cobalt, Copper. 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
Buckeye MineCobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Fredericktown DepositsLead, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, CobaltPast ProducerREPLACEMENT, DISSEMINATED SULFIDES.
Fredricktown ClaimCobalt, Nickel, Lead, GoldProducerAnglesite, Bornite, Covellite, Galena
Madison MineLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Madison MineCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1847, 1944
Revelle ProspectCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, SilverProspect
SchulteCopper, Lead, CobaltPast ProducerGalena
Shaft Number OneCopper, Zinc, Lead, CobaltPast Producer
Shaft Number ThreeCobalt, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Shaft Number TwoCopper, Cobalt, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Millcreek2.6 miles17
Central2.8 miles20
Cobalt Village3.9 miles17
Zion4.7 miles20
Creek Nation4.7 miles19
Fredericktown4.9 miles17
Klendike5.4 miles19
Cornwall5.6 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cherokee PassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q547515The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 753516. 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.