Sawyer County
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county in Wisconsin, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wisconsin
- Named after
- Philetus Sawyer
- Seat
- Hayward
- Largest city
- Hayward
- Total
- 1,350 sq mi (3,500 km )
- Land
- 1,257 sq mi (3,260 km )
- Water
- 93 sq mi (240 km ) 6.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,846
- Density
- 14.4/sq mi (5.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- www .sawyercounty .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Sawyer County, WI | Official Website
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Philetus Sawyer
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wisconsin
- Contains
- Hayward
- Capital
- Hayward
- Population
- 18074
- Area
- 3497
- Shares border with
- Douglas County
- Official website
- www.sawyercountygov.org
- Image
- North Wisconsin Lumber Company Office, 2014.JPG
- Households
- 7893
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- Commons category
- Sawyer County, Wisconsin
- topic's main category
- Category:Sawyer County, Wisconsin
- native label
- Sawyer County
- inception
- 1883-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 6.9
- per capita income
- 32851
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sawyer County, Wisconsin
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Encyclopedic overview
Sawyer County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, its population was 18,074. Its county seat is Hayward. The county is largely rural, with no community outside Hayward exceeding 400 people. It partly overlaps with the reservation of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. The U.S. Department of Agriculture considers the county a high-recreation and high-retirement destination.
Before settlement, the county was covered by virgin timber - home and hunting grounds for Native Americans. During the late 1800s that timber was cut, and the wealth generated started Hayward and the other towns of today. Since then, the area's economy has diversified into farming, then government services and tourism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sawyer County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.