Septic soil in Cherokee County, OK, by the numbers
Very limited
Soil across 83.1% of Cherokee County, OK rates "Very limited" in USDA's septic-absorption-field interpretation. Practically, that rules out a simple gravity system for most of the county - 83.1% of it sits in USDA's most-constrained bucket. Cherokee County, OK is 749.127 square miles with a population of 48,729.
What Cherokee County's reading doesn't cover
Cherokee County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Cherokee County will actually do.
What a system would cost here
With 83.1% of Cherokee County rating "Very limited", a standard gravity system is not a safe assumption here. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.
How Cherokee County, OK compares
Nationally, Cherokee County, OK is the 1,848-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Oklahoma alone it ranks 41 of 77.
Further reading
How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems