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Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

18,074pop. 2020

13cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Ojibwa, Spider Lake, Hayward.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wisconsin is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Sawyer titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Hall-Raynor Stopping Place	Ojibwa	Building	1979
Moody's Camp Lodge	Spider Lake	Building	2019
North Wisconsin Lumber Company Office	Hayward	Building	1980
Ojibwa Courier Press Building	Raddison	Building	1982

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sawyer was formed in 1883 (1883-03-13) from Ashland, Chippewa.

SAWYER created from ASHLAND and CHIPPEWA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sawyer County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,977	3,593	8,243	11,540	10,323	9,475	12,843	16,196	18,074

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

13 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bellile Cemetery	45.72547	-91.20546
Evergreen Cemetery	45.83507	-91.53694
Greenwood Cemetery	46.00966	-91.50545
Indian Cemetery	46.00325	-91.47258
Loretta - Draper Cemetery	45.88884	-90.84238
Mennonite Cemetery	45.69739	-91.1936
Radisson Cemetery	45.75525	-91.22495
Riverside Cemetery	46.1197	-91.36347
Round Lake Cemetery	45.97759	-91.32243
Saint Peter's Cemetery	45.82761	-91.00821
Trinity Cemetery	46.06259	-91.4059
Windfall Cemetery	45.66748	-91.22146
Winter Cemetery	45.82784	-91.00904

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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