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Sawyer, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parkers Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42634. It lies near Barnett Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Sawyer quadrangle. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Sawyer within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

146 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,296 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 98 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
Arson/incendiarism98
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2002Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestJUST BEGAN
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestDOG SLAUGHTER
1 September 2011Natural8.2 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCAMPBELL BRANCH
13 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBARK CAMP IV
6 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestFALLS
2 June 2007Naturalunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSINGLE TREE
9 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawyer in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Numerous trees were downed on Highways 896, 1363 and 90.

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Funston2.9 miles17
Honeybee4.2 miles16
Bauer5.5 miles17
Greenwood7.8 miles16
Beulah Heights8.1 miles16
Wiborg9.7 miles16
Flat Rock10.0 miles16
Nevelsville11.7 miles12

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 Q7428720The 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 515267. 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.