Cherokee County, TX
The federal environmental record for Cherokee County (population 52,217): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
8
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Cherokee with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| CITY OF JACKSONVILLE TX0370002 | PFPeA: 5 ng/L PFHxA: 4.1 ng/L PFBS: 3.7 ng/L | detected |
| NORTH CHEROKEE WSC TX0370018 | PFBA: 6.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
6 facilities in Cherokee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 103k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTURY INDUSTRIAL COATINGS I NC. | JACKSONVILLE | Nonylphenol Ethoxylates, Certain glycol ethers | 89k lb |
| WARMINSTER FIBERGLASS LLC | JACKSONVILLE | Styrene | 8k lb |
| TEKNOR COLOR CO | JACKSONVILLE | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 5k lb |
| KLEIN PRODUCTS OF TEXAS | JACKSONVILLE | Chromium, Nickel | 555 lb |
| LEO HICKS CREOSOTING CO INC | ALTO | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
| TXI - JACKSONVILLE READY MIX | JACKSONVILLE | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 202 tank facilities in Cherokee: 121 tanks in service and 395 closed. 72 fuel releases are on record, of which 8 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Cherokee as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
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