Cherokee Pass, MO

Cherokee Pass is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Madison County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 271, residents. Cherokee Pass is located on U.S. Route 67 in central Madison County, approximately 5 miles south of Fredericktown, the county seat, and 25 miles north of Silva. The community sits at an elevation of 978 feet on the height of land between north-flowing tributaries of the Little St. Francis River and south-flowing Twelvemile Creek; both waterways are tributaries of the St. Francis River. The short version is that Cherokee Pass carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Cherokee Pass: its past remains attached to the places people use now.