K I Sawyer, Michigan
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Forsyth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49841. The Survey maps it on the Gwinn quadrangle. 3,064 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,221 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresK I Sawyer grew from 2,624 to 3,064 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 | 2,624 | |
| 2020 | 3,064 | +440 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1932 USGS Harvey SW quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Gwinn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
85 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of K I Sawyer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 371 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000024 - 2019 |
| 29 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SPORLEY TRAIL |
| 28 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | AIRFIELD ROAD |
| 10 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STIENBERG SPITTERS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plains | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Swanzy | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Little Lake | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| New Swanzy | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Gwinn | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Austin | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Princeton | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Sands | 6.2 miles | 17 |
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 K I Sawyer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1873040 | 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 2336730. 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.







