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Sawyer, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Carlton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55720. The Survey maps it on the Sawyer quadrangle.

Sawyer within Carlton 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 33 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
Debris and open burning51
Arson/incendiarism33
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

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
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFond Du Lac TribeHIGBEE RD
21 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2013Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFond Du Lac TribeRR FIRES
7 July 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sawyer: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Big Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawyer in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 4 hail, 2 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSawyer-A few trees were knocked down along State Highway 210 between Cromwell and Cloquet.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Campers and recreational vehicles were damaged when numerous trees were blown down at the Big Lake Shores Campground.
May 2012HailSawyer-A wall cloud was also spotted.
May 2012HailSawyer-Hail stripped the leaves off trees.
May 2012HailSawyer-The hail shredded leaves on trees.
May 2012HailSawyer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Big Lake Chapel4.0 miles8
Atkinson5.4 miles9
Iverson5.5 miles8
Otter Creek5.9 miles8
Mahtowa6.7 miles7
Corona7.1 miles7
Cloquet9.8 miles9
Carlton11.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 651254. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.