Cheraw is a Statutory Town located in Otero County, Colorado, United States.

Cheraw had a population of 80, half of whom were men serving in the Colorado National Guard Second Regiment Band under the leadership of Sergeant Luther D. Armstrong, attached to the regiment of General Cameron and the 115th Ammunition Train commanded by Colonel Danks.

The largest demographic group, 15 percent of the population, were resident aliens who had immigrated from Mexico within the previous decade.

[8] The men's occupations in 1920 included blacksmith, salesman, publisher, lumberyard manager, retail merchant, laborer, wagon driver, bank cashier, barber, physician, druggist, teacher, minister, carpenter, farmer and farm laborers, alfalfa mill manager and laborers, bank bookkeeper, railroad depot operator, [illegible] at pool hall, railroad laborer, and auto mechanic.

Women were employed at paying occupations as saleslady, teacher, manager of the telephone exchange, postal workers, and postmistress.