Cherokee is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California, that was founded by Maidu Indians. It is now ranked as a ghost town, though it does have a population of somewhere around 500 people, and the surrounding area population is aprox. 1000 people. It lies at an elevation of 1306 feet (398 m).
Possibly the site of the historic gold mine, on the 1994 Cherokee, California 7.5-minute quadrangle, a feature named "Cherokee Placer Mine" ex...
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Cherokee is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California, that was founded by Maidu Indians. It is now ranked as a ghost town, though it does have a population of somewhere around 500 people, and the surrounding area population is aprox. 1000 people. It lies at an elevation of 1306 feet (398 m).
Possibly the site of the historic gold mine, on the 1994 Cherokee, California 7.5-minute quadrangle, a feature named "Cherokee Placer Mine" exists about .65 miles southwest of the above coordinates. USGS identifies Cherokee Flat and Drytown as historic variant names for the community. The town is located on Cherokee Road off State Route 70.
Today, Cherokee now consists of a museum and a Cherokee cemetery, as well as a few houses. The Cherokee Heritage and Museum Association maintains both.
The ZIP Code is 95965. The community is inside area code 530.
The area that is now Cherokee was once populated by the Maidu. Around 1818 Spanish explorers found gold on Cherokee's south side near...
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