diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index fd056932..74f59863 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: nhdplusTools
 Type: Package
 Title: NHDPlus Tools
-Version: 1.2.0
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "David", 
                     family = "Blodgett", 
                     role = c("aut", "cre"), 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d5174088..8eefade7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+nhdplusTools 1.2.1
+==========
+Bug fix for data cache directory #389
+
 nhdplusTools 1.2.0
 ==========
 
diff --git a/R/A_nhdplusTools.R b/R/A_nhdplusTools.R
index ed648313..32802b15 100644
--- a/R/A_nhdplusTools.R
+++ b/R/A_nhdplusTools.R
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ nhdplusTools_data_dir <- function(dir = NULL) {
 
     nhdpt_dat_dir <- try(get("nhdpt_dat_dir", envir = nhdplusTools_env), silent = TRUE)
 
-    if(inherits(nhdpt_dat_dir, "try-error")) {
+    if(inherits(nhdpt_dat_dir, "try-error") || grepl("CRAN", nhdpt_dat_dir)) {
       assign("nhdpt_dat_dir",
              tools::R_user_dir("nhdplusTools"),
              envir = nhdplusTools_env)
@@ -428,6 +428,18 @@ nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout <- function() {
   }
 }
 
+.onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) {
+  query_usgs_arcrest <<- memoise::memoise(query_usgs_arcrest,
+                                          ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()),
+                                          cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+  query_usgs_geoserver <<- memoise::memoise(query_usgs_geoserver,
+                                            ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()),
+                                            cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+  query_nldi <<- memoise::memoise(query_nldi,
+                                  ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()),
+                                  cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+}
+
 #' @title Align NHD Dataset Names
 #' @description this function takes any NHDPlus dataset and aligns the attribute names with those used in nhdplusTools.
 #' @param x a \code{sf} object of nhdplus flowlines
diff --git a/R/arcrest_tools.R b/R/arcrest_tools.R
index 6386d871..77389cc7 100644
--- a/R/arcrest_tools.R
+++ b/R/arcrest_tools.R
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ get_3dhp_service_info <- memoise::memoise(function() {
 #' @importFrom httr RETRY content
 #' @importFrom dplyr filter
 #' @importFrom methods as
-query_usgs_arcrest <- memoise::memoise(function(AOI = NULL,  ids = NULL,
+query_usgs_arcrest <- function(AOI = NULL,  ids = NULL,
                                type = NULL, where = NULL,
                                t_srs = NULL,
                                buffer = 0.5){
@@ -216,4 +216,4 @@ query_usgs_arcrest <- memoise::memoise(function(AOI = NULL,  ids = NULL,
     all_out[[l]] <- out
   }
   tryCatch(sf::st_sf(data.table::rbindlist(all_out)), error = function(e) NULL)
-}, ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()), cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+}
diff --git a/R/geoserver_tools.R b/R/geoserver_tools.R
index c70b1be5..b2fbf685 100644
--- a/R/geoserver_tools.R
+++ b/R/geoserver_tools.R
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #' @importFrom methods as
 #' @importFrom xml2 read_xml
 
-query_usgs_geoserver <- memoise::memoise(function(AOI = NULL,  ids = NULL,
+query_usgs_geoserver <- function(AOI = NULL,  ids = NULL,
                                  type = NULL, filter = NULL,
                                  t_srs = NULL,
                                  buffer = 0.5) {
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ query_usgs_geoserver <- memoise::memoise(function(AOI = NULL,  ids = NULL,
     NULL
   }
 
-}, ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()), cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+}
 
 unify_types <- function(out) {
   all_class <- bind_rows(lapply(out, function(x) {
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ extact_comid_nwis <- memoise::memoise(function(nwis){
   c        <-  rawToChar(httr::RETRY("GET", url)$content)
   f.comid  <-  jsonlite::fromJSON(c, simplifyVector = TRUE)
   f.comid$features$properties$comid
-}, ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()), cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+})
 
 #' @importFrom sf st_make_valid st_as_sfc st_bbox st_buffer st_transform
 check_query_params <- function(AOI, ids, type, where, source, t_srs, buffer) {
diff --git a/R/get_geoconnex.R b/R/get_geoconnex.R
index 7e8116ec..979049f7 100644
--- a/R/get_geoconnex.R
+++ b/R/get_geoconnex.R
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #' @param url character url to get
 #' @return list containing parsed json on success, NULL otherwise
 #' @noRd
-mem_get_json <- landing <- memoise::memoise(\(url) {
+mem_get_json <- memoise::memoise(\(url) {
   tryCatch({
     retn <- httr::RETRY("GET", url, httr::accept_json())
 
diff --git a/R/get_nldi.R b/R/get_nldi.R
index 56323a38..325a7bc0 100644
--- a/R/get_nldi.R
+++ b/R/get_nldi.R
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ get_nldi_index <- function(location) {
 #' @importFrom httr GET
 #' @importFrom jsonlite fromJSON
 #' @noRd
-query_nldi <- memoise::memoise(function(query, base_path = "/linked-data", parse_json = TRUE) {
+query_nldi <- function(query, base_path = "/linked-data", parse_json = TRUE) {
   nldi_base_url <- paste0(get_nldi_url(), base_path)
 
   url <- paste(nldi_base_url, query,
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ query_nldi <- memoise::memoise(function(query, base_path = "/linked-data", parse
     warning("Something went wrong accessing the NLDI.\n", e)
     NULL
   })
-}, ~memoise::timeout(nhdplusTools_memoise_timeout()), cache = nhdplusTools_memoise_cache())
+}
 
 #' @noRd
 check_nldi_feature <- function(nldi_feature, convert = TRUE) {