Cherokee, KS
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Cherokee in Kansas · Population: 19,236
Cherokee, KS is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 6 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 14 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 34/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 612.7K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 3 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (14)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| BAXTER SPRINGS, CITY OF | 3,852 | 16 |
| COLUMBUS, CITY OF | 2,882 | 0 |
| GALENA, CITY OF | 2,743 | 0 |
| CHEROKEE CO RWD 3 | 1,900 | 0 |
| CHEROKEE CO RWD 4 | 1,500 | 0 |
| CHEROKEE CO RWD 8 | 1,235 | 0 |
| CHEROKEE CO RWD 2 | 943 | 0 |
| CHETOPA, CITY OF | 921 | 12 |
| CHEROKEE CO RWD 9 | 900 | 0 |
| WEIR, CITY OF | 566 | 0 |
| SCAMMON, CITY OF | 370 | 0 |
| WEST MINERAL, CITY OF | 150 | 0 |
| ROSELAND, CITY OF | 73 | 0 |
| PUBLIC WHOLESALE WSD 19 | 1 | 5 |
TRI Facilities (6)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayhawk Fine Chemicals Corp | 612.6K lbs |
| 2 | Atec Steel Fabrication & Construction LLC | 62 lbs |
| 3 | Kemlee Manufacturing Inc | 29 lbs |
| 4 | Pbi/gordon Corp - Jayhawk Facility | 0 lbs |
| 5 | Butterball LLC | 0 lbs |
| 6 | Plant 5 - PORT-0811 - Baxter Springs | 0 lbs |
Cities in Cherokee (5)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.