Sawyer, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 11. It lies in ZIP code area 67134. The Survey maps it on the Sawyer quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,906 feet above sea level.
On record in Sawyer
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Sawyer City Jaillisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresSawyer fell from 124 to 89 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 124 | |
| 2020 | 89 | -35 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Sawyer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer in 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 67 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawyer in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 45 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 deaths and 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF3) | Sawyer | 2 killed, 2 hurt | This 3/4 mile wide tornado produced EF3 damage and unfortunately claimed two lives. A husband and wife were parked on highway 54 approximately 2 1/4 miles east of Cairo. The tornado picked up their car and carried it approximately 1700 feet NNE into a wheat field (they were not discovered until the next morning at about 9 AM). The female occupant was ejected and was found 30 feet southwest of the wreckage. The male was still strapped in his seat. The car was nearly unrecognizable. ||A second vehicle (3/4 ton truck) was parked 20 yards behind the aforementioned car. It also went airborne briefly but got lodged on the north side ditch. The two male occupants received numerous cuts and bruises but were otherwise unhurt. They both claimed it was extremely cold immediately after crawling out of their vehicle with heavy vapor breath noticed.||This tornado destroyed a home about a mile north and the collapsed east wall trapped a male in the bathtub where he had taken cover. Help was needed in lifting the wall off of him but he claimed he was not hurt. Other homes in the tornadoes path received minor to moderate damage. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | $100,000 | Two irrigation sprinklers were overturned. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Sawyer | - | Public report half-dollar sized hail near Isabel Wetlands Wildlife Area. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Sawyer | - | No damage was observed. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Sawyer | - | This weak tornado moved into Pratt County at 1515 CST. Damage was not observed. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Sawyer | - | This tornado passed over an area that had nothing to damage. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Sawyer | - | A weak tornado moved northeast across US Highway 281 but it did not hit anything to damage. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | A 35 foot long trailer was blown onto a pickup. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | Winds estimated at 60 mph broke 2 to 3 inch diameter tree branches. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Sawyer | - | Rainfall of 2.30 was observed. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | Four inch diameter tree branches were broken by the strong wind. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | Winds were estimated to be 65 mph. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Sawyer | - | This tornado caused minor tree damage as it crossed into the county from Barber county. It lasted 1 minute in Pratt county. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Sawyer | - | This tornado moved out of Barber county at 1019 PM and caused EF1 damage to trees. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Sawyer | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Sawyer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2414269 | The 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 470374. 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.
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.





