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Cherokee, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Colville Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98841. It lies near Pothole Canyon. The Survey maps it on The Pothole quadrangle.

Cherokee within Okanogan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,110 acres in total. 47 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
Natural47
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use23
Fireworks20
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColville AgencyMOOMAW
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville AgencyW. MOOMAWS
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyOMAK HUDS
4 September 2014Natural44 acresColville AgencyWILD HORSE
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyWANNACUT CREEK II
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyANNOCOTT CREEK
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyMF HUD
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreColville AgencySOUTH WANACUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Cherokee: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Magnesite, Dolomite. 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
Canamera Milling and SmeltingGoldPast Producer
Okanogan County Road DivStone, DimensionProducer
RiversideFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Deposit 2DolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
N.W.L. BrownDolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
RiversidePlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Riverside PlacerPlatinumUnknown
Deposit 2MagnesiteOccurrence
Deposit 3MagnesiteOccurrence
N W L BrownMagnesitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Okanogan 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
North Omak1.2 miles9
Riverside4.1 miles11
Omak4.2 miles12
Epley (historical)5.3 miles12
Keystone7.7 miles11
Synarep8.7 miles11
Okanogan8.7 miles12
Barker8.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1517660. 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.