BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pratt County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sawyer City Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Alley west of Main St., Sawyer, 67134
- When was it listed? July 2022
- Category. building
- Township. Township 11
- National Register reference number. 100007924 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer City Jail 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 property
60 of 67 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawyer, the town this property stands in, 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 |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007924 in Record Group 79. |
| Pratt County | All 9 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.