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Sawyer, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Towson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74756. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Towson quadrangle. 340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Sawyer within Choctaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Sawyer grew from 321 to 340 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
2010321
2020340+19 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer between 1992 and 2014, burning about 575 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20384
14 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10148
30 July 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2004Debris and open burning2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20303
5 April 2004Debris and open burning20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20305
5 April 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20306
16 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Sawyer: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Buster Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dave Buster Construction Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawyer in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSawyer$3,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew the roof off a barn.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindSawyer$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees near Sawyer, with some trees falling onto roads. Power lines were also blown down in the area.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindSawyer$100Large tree limbs down and hail of unknown size
March 2008Tornado (EF0)Sawyer-A tornado was photographed near Hugo Lake. No damage is known to have occurred with this tornado.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindSawyer-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several large trees.
April 2008HailSawyer-no account filed
January 2005HailSawyer-no account filed
April 2005HailSawyer-no account filed
May 2003HailSawyer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Fallon2.6 miles9
Virgil3.9 miles15
West Fort Towson5.2 miles15
Fort Towson5.6 miles15
Huskey6.8 miles10
Messer7.3 miles15
Hugo7.3 miles16
Shoals8.1 miles9

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 Q2324032The 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 1097856. 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.