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Cherokee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas . It was named for the Cherokee Indians , who lived in the area before being expelled in 1839. Rusk, the county seat, is 130 miles southeast of Dallas and 160 miles north of Houston. As of the 2010 census , its population was 50,845 .
Native Americans Caddo Mounds at the Caddo Mounds State Historic Site in Cherokee County The Hasinai group of the Caddo tribe built a village in the area about 800 A.D. and continued to live in the area until the 1830s, when they migrated to the Brazos River. The Federal Government moved them to the Brazos Indian Reservation in 1855 and later to Oklahoma. The Cherokees , Delaware , Shawnee , and Kickapoo , began settling in the area circa 1820. The Cherokee tried unsuccessfully to gain a grant to their own land from the Mexican government. Sam Houston , adopted son of Chief Oolooteka of the Cherokee, negotiated the January 14, 1836 treaty between Chief Bowl of the Cherokees and the Republic of Texas . On December 16, 1837, the Texas Senate declared the treaty null and void, and continued further encroachment of Cherokee lands. On October 5, 1838, Indians massacred members of the Isaac Killough family at their farm northwest of the site of present Jacksonville, leading to the Cherokee War of 1839 and the expulsion of all Indians from the county. Early exploration and settlers Domingo Terán de los Ríos and Father Damián Massanet explored the area on behalf of Spain in 1691.
