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CHEROKEE is the county seat [Cherokee County, Iowa], and is situated on the Little Sioux River, 80 miles west of Fort Dodge, and 55 miles east of Sioux City. The land is rolling prairie, and adapted particularly to stock raising. The Little Sioux affords a good water-power at this place. There is here one saw mill. Cherokee has been a military post since the fall of 1861. Population of township, 75. (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)
Latitude
42.751144
Longitude
-95.552334
Type
City or Town
County
Cherokee
State
Iowa