Cherokee, OK
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 Oklahoma · Population: 47,621
Cherokee, OK is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 1 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility, 19 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 16/100 (Low Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 1 lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 16 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 (19)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| TAHLEQUAH PWA | 14,458 | 29 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #11 | 3,395 | 1 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #3 (GRANDVIEW) | 2,300 | 0 |
| PEGGS WATER COMPANY | 1,925 | 1 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #13 | 1,640 | 26 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #2 (KEYS) | 1,493 | 4 |
| HULBERT PWA | 1,007 | 3 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #7 (WELLING) | 418 | 0 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #8 (BRIGGS) | 413 | 9 |
| CORRAL KREEK SUBDIV | 273 | 0 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD # 16 (CHICKEN CREEK) | 272 | 5 |
| BURNT CABIN RWD | 208 | 9 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD # 16 (WILDCAT) | 200 | 7 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD # 16 (WOODHAVEN) | 200 | 5 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD # 16 (LAKEWOOD) | 200 | 9 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #9 | 200 | 24 |
| CHEROKEE CO. RWD #12 | 95 | 3 |
| PETTIT MOUNTAIN WATER | 90 | 17 |
| SUBURBAN MHP | 50 | 3 |
TRI Facilities (1)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apac-Central Inc. Roberts Asphalt 4037 | 1 lbs |
Cities in Cherokee (1)
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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.