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Welcome to Sawyer ...

Sawyer is located in the Idaho Panhandle.

Sawyer is located in Bonner County<1>.

Sawyer is 2,150 feet [655 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Sawyer is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Sawyer lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Sawyer and travel east, you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

Area Codes for Sawyer: 208 & 986<3>

Communities Also Named Sawyer ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 18 communities that are also named Sawyer - they are located in Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico (2), New York (3), North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Washington and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sawyer.

Communities near Sawyer ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sawyer.

  • Sandpoint
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Spirit Lake
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Newport
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Newport is located in Pend Oreille County (WA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,266 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newport <4>
  • Priest River
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Ponderay
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Kootenai
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Dover
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Athol
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Oldtown
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Cocolalla
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Sawyer. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sawyer.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sawyer. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sawyer.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sawyer. See our Newspapers Page for Sawyer.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Sawyer ...

Looking for more information about Sawyer? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Sawyer, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Sawyer.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Idaho's counties, including Bonner, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Sawyer - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 208 code has been Overlayed with the 986 area code. New phone numbers in the Sawyer area will be assigned with one of these codes: 208 or 986. As a result, placing a call in the Sawyer area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.