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Cherokee County, Kansas: drinking water records
This overview covers 9 ZIP codes and 16 community water systems in Cherokee County. It also stands in for 0 ZIP codes whose utility has too little EPA data for a page of its own.
System population figures are summed from EPA registry records and can overlap where wholesalers and retail systems serve the same people. They are not a Census county-population estimate.
Water systems with the most complete records
| Water system | People served | PFAS survey results | PFAS found | Health-based violations | Lead, 9 in 10 homes at or below |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter Springs, City of KS2002109 | 3,852 | 120 | 0 | 9 | 3.2 ppb |
| West Mineral, City of KS2002115 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 ppb |
| Columbus, City of KS2002110 | 2,882 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Galena, City of KS2002113 | 2,743 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 3 KS2002107 | 1,900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 4 KS2002102 | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 8 KS2002121 | 1,235 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 2 KS2002106 | 943 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 9 KS2002120 | 900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Weir, City of KS2002114 | 566 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 1 KS2002111 | 520 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 5 KS2002117 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 ppb |
| Scammon, City of KS2002101 | 370 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 7 KS2002116 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 ppb |
| Roseland, City of KS2002105 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 ppb |
| Public Wholesale WSD 19 KS2002123 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | not reported |
ZIP reports in Cherokee County
No ZIP report in this county is published yet.
Sources and scope
EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data, samples collected 2023-01-03 – 2026-06-17, final release, August 2026 (file dated Aug 28, 2026); EPA SDWIS via ECHO, 2026Q2 extract (file dated Jul 9, 2026); EPA service-area boundaries v3.0; Census 2020 ZCTAs. Page generated 2026-09-03.
Counts cover the systems that report this county to EPA. A water system may cross county lines. "Found" means at least one result at or above the laboratory reporting level; it is not a compliance finding.