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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.

Sawyer within Pratt County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Sawyer 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.

YearPeople Change
2010124
202089-35 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

2 since 2020

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Pratt County

Storms near this place

60 of 67 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Tornado (EF3)Sawyer2 killed, 2 hurtThis 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 1998Thunderstorm WindSawyer$100,000Two irrigation sprinklers were overturned.
April 2026HailSawyer-Public report half-dollar sized hail near Isabel Wetlands Wildlife Area.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSawyer-A large tree was blown down.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Sawyer-No damage was observed.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Sawyer-This weak tornado moved into Pratt County at 1515 CST. Damage was not observed.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Sawyer-This tornado passed over an area that had nothing to damage.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Sawyer-A weak tornado moved northeast across US Highway 281 but it did not hit anything to damage.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSawyer-A 35 foot long trailer was blown onto a pickup.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Winds estimated at 60 mph broke 2 to 3 inch diameter tree branches.
August 2010Heavy RainSawyer-Rainfall of 2.30 was observed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Four inch diameter tree branches were broken by the strong wind.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Winds were estimated to be 65 mph.
May 2008Tornado (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 2008Tornado (EF1)Sawyer-This tornado moved out of Barber county at 1019 PM and caused EF1 damage to trees.
June 2019HailSawyer-no account filed
September 2019HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2016Funnel CloudSawyer-no account filed
May 2016HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2013HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2012HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2012HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2012HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2012HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2012HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSawyer-no account filed
June 2011HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSawyer-no account filed
May 2008HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSawyer-no account filed
July 2008HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2007HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindSawyer-no account filed
April 2006HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2005HailSawyer-no account filed
March 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
March 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2004HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2003HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2003HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2003HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2002HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2002HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2002HailSawyer-no account filed
June 2002HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2001HailSawyer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pratt 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
Coats7.6 miles14
Pratt10.5 miles14
Waldeck11.5 miles14
Cairo12.5 miles14
Springvale14.0 miles14
Natrona14.8 miles14
Cullison15.0 miles14
Iuka16.2 miles14

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 SawyerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2414269The 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.