Cherokee (California)

Cherokee
The Cherokee Museum
Location in California
Cherokee
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	Butte County
Coordinates :	39 ° 39 ′  N , 121 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 39 ′  N , 121 ° 32 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	69 (as of 2010)
Population density :	15.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	4,976 km 2  (about 2 mi 2 ) of which 4,534 km 2  (about 2 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	398 m
Postal code :	95965
Area code :	+1 530
FIPS :	06-48928
GNIS ID :	1655889

Location of Cherokee in Butte County

Cherokee is a census-designated place in Butte County , California. The area around Cherokee was settled by the Maidu people before the gold rush , but got its name from a group of gold prospecting Cherokee who staked a gold prospecting claim at this point. The population of Cherokee was 69 at the 2010 census . Cherokee is located at an altitude of 398 meters.

In the Cherokee 7.5-minute quadrant, a field name Cherokee Placer Mine is entered about one kilometer southwest of the above coordinates and may be identical to the historic gold mine. The United States Geological Survey names Cherokee Flat and Drytown as historical variants of the place name. The city is off California State Route 70 .

Today Cherokee consists of a museum, a cemetery (both maintained by the Cherokee Heitage and Meseum Association ) and a few houses.

history

The area of ​​today's Cherokee was once settled by the Maidu. Around 1818, Spanish explorers found gold in what is now the southern edge of Cherokee, near Table Mountain . Cherokee came from Oklahoma in 1849 . Welsh prospectors arrived in the 1850s and named the city after the Cherokee. They erected many buildings in the city.

Thomas Alva Edison owned one of the mines opened up in the area and provided electricity to make the work easier. During the gold period the city prospered; the first buildings in Butte County with running water were in Cherokee.

In 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes , his wife Lucy, Civil War General William T. Sherman, and General John Bidwell visited Cherokee's famous hydraulic mine . Because of the high maintenance costs, the mines were sold in the 1890s. In its heyday, the city had thousands of residents.

A post office worked in Cherokee from 1854 to 1912.

Spring Valley Mine

Over time, the mines consolidated and by the 1870s, Cherokee's hydraulic mining companies were merged into one company controlled by the Spring Valley Mining and Irrigation Company . The mine was closed in 1894. The area still has Spring Valley Elementary School , Spring Valley Reservoir, and Spring Valley Gulch (a valley).

Cherokee as a tourist attraction

Visitors come to Cherokee for the museum and cemetery. The two annual festivals on July 4th and the weekend around September 24th (called President Hayes Day ) also attract tourists.

In the area there is Sugarloaf , a rock group with populations of deer, fox, pigeons and peacocks and hiking trails. The Table Mountain is known for its blooming in spring wildflowers.

A Chinese Taoist temple, one of the oldest such buildings in the United States (but no longer in use), was built by the small Chinese community in the 1860s . The temple is considered to be historically significant.

Demographics

The 2010 United States Census listed Cherokee as having 69 residents. The population density thus corresponded to 13.9 / km². The proportions of the population groups were: 48 (70%) whites , no African American , two (3%) Indians , eight (12%) Asians , no Pacific islanders , no other "races" and eleven (16%) members of two or more "Races" . Of Hispanics or Latinos , there was one person (1%).

According to the Census, 69 people (100%) lived in households, none in non-institutionalized group quarters and none in institutionalized quarters.

There were 26 households out of which seven (27%) had children under the age of 18; fourteen (54%) were led by married couples living together , three (12%) by a single mother and one (4%) by a single father. There were two (8%) unmarried non-same-sex partnerships and no same-sex partnerships. Seven households (27%) were made up of singles and four (15%) by a single person over 65 years of age. The average household size was 2.6 people. There were eighteen families (69% of all households); the average family size was 3.3 people.

The population was divided into sixteen people (23%) under the age of eighteen, three people (4%) between the ages of 18 and 24, nineteen people (28%) between the ages of 25 and 44, and nineteen people (28%) between the ages of 45 and 64 and twelve people (17%) over 65 years of age. The median age was 42.8 years. For every 100 women there were 122.6 men, for every 100 women over the age of 18 there were 103.8 men.

There were 30 residential units, which corresponded to an average density of 6 per square kilometer, of which nineteen (73%) were occupied by the owner and seven (27%) by tenants. The vacancy rate for the owners was 0%, as was that of the tenants. Fifteen people (73% of the population) lived in their own housing units and nineteen people (28%) in rented units.

Views

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  Ruins of the former Cherokee Bank

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  Headstones of Welsh immigrants in Cherokee Cemetery

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  Gravestone of the German immigrant Frederick W. Wahle (1824–1896) in the Cherokee cemetery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cherokee Census Designated Place . Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
2. ↑ Cherokee . Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
3. ^ David L. Durham: California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State . Word Dancer Press, Clovis, Calif. 1998, p. 211.
4. ↑ The Ghosts of Cherokee . In: Chico News & Review , July 8, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2016. 
5. ^ USGS Geographic Names Butte County . Retrieved June 27, 2016.
6. ↑ 2010 Census Interactive Population Search: CA - Cherokee CDP . US Census Bureau. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 12, 2014. 

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• Kay Grant, The Remains Of Cherokee: A California Gold Rush Town, offbeattravel.com

Web links

Commons : Cherokee, California  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• A page with pictures from Cherokee (in English)
• “The ghosts of Cherokee: Digging up the history of a Butte County mining town” - Chico News & Review of July 18, 2013 (in English)