 sawyer county is a county in the u.s. state of wisconsin. as of the 2010 census, the population was 16,557. its county seat is hayward. ==history== the county is named for philetus sawyer, who represented wisconsin in the u.s. house of representatives and u.s. senate in the 19th century.  ==geography== according to the u.s. census bureau, the county has a total area of , of which  is land and  (6.9%) is water. ===major highways=== *20px u.s. highway 63 *20px highway 27 (wisconsin) *20px highway 40 (wisconsin) *20px highway 48 (wisconsin) *20px highway 70 (wisconsin) *20px highway 77 (wisconsin) *sawyer county highway b is the busiest rural roadway on average in all of sawyer county with a high count of 5900 vehicles daily, according to the wisconsin department of transportation's average daily traffic maps for 2008. http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/counts/docs/sawyer/sawyer2008.pdf ===adjacent counties=== *bayfield county - north *ashland county - northeast *price county - east *rusk county - south *barron county - southwest *washburn county - west *douglas county - northwest ===national protected areas=== * chequamegon national forest (part) * saint croix national scenic riverway (part) ==de
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