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Sawmill, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86504. The Survey maps it on the Sawmill quadrangle. 564 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,975 feet above sea level.

Sawmill within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Sawmill fell from 748 to 564 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010748
2020564-184 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Sawmill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,329 acres in total. 92 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural92
Debris and open burning44
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRT07W#2
8 September 2009Natural1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFLUTED ROCK LAKE 1
7 September 2020Other causesunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSAWMILL 3
7 September 2007Natural1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFLUTED ROCK 2
3 September 2000Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSAWMILL 2
29 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPOWERLINE
25 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITE CLAY 1
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management9300 WEST

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sawmill: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Semiprecious Gemstone, Olivine, Garnet, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buell ParkSemiprecious GemstoneUnknown
Buell ParkOlivine, Garnet, GemstoneProducerPeridot, Pyrope

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawmill in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Funnel CloudSawmill-A Chinle Police Department officer observed a funnel cloud between Fluted Rock and Sawmill.

Every storm recorded in Apache County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Milkwater10.8 miles19
White Clay11.6 miles18
Fort Defiance11.9 miles18
Bonita Trading Post12.5 miles18
Nazlini15.0 miles19
Woodspring Trading Post15.1 miles19
Window Rock16.4 miles18
Wood Springs16.9 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SawmillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1894710The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 10975. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.