According to the USGS http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic, Cheek Reservation is in Marshall County. The Tiger Map service shows it as a speck in the middle of Lake Guntersville and lists it as a "reserve" making me thing it is probably a wildlife reserve. All that being said, there was a Catharine Cheek who received a reservation of 640 acres of land under the treaty of 1817. I don't know if it was in AL or not, but the current Cheek Reservation is right in the middle of the old Cherokee Nation. It could perhaps have been hers. I would imagine someone in Guntersville might know the origins of the name. A word of caution about the land reservations: they were only good for the lifetime of the reservee or until they abandoned the land (which some took to mean if they left it for any length of time, then someone else would grab it). There were very few of the Cherokee reservees that held their land in fee simple, meaning they actually owned it and could pass it down to their children. All others were only temporary and could not be passed down in the family. For this reason, I think Cheek Reservation probably does not apply to a Native American land reservation, but some other. Blessings, Susan