Results are presented on the properties of ${\pi }_N\mathrm{}\left(980\right)\mathrm{}$, produced peripherally in the reaction $K^{-}+p\to Y_1^{}{}_{}{}^{*+}\mathrm{}\left(1385\right)+\pi _N^{}{}_{}{}^{-}\mathrm{}\left(980\right)\mathrm{}$ with a cross section of 9±3 μb at 5.5 $\frac{\mathrm{GeV}}{c}$. A search was made for ${\pi }_N\mathrm{}\left(980\right)\mathrm{}$ production via the decay of a higher-mass resonance. The cross section for the reaction $K^{-}+p\to \Lambda +D^0\mathrm{}\left(1285\right)\mathrm{}$ at 5.5 $\frac{\mathrm{GeV}}{c}$, with the subsequent decay $D^0\to {\pi }_N\mathrm{}\left(980\right)+\pi$, was <6 μb at the 70% confidence level. The mass and width of the ${\pi }_N\mathrm{}\left(980\right)\mathrm{}$ are 980±10 and 80±30 MeV, respectively. The dominant decay mode is $\pi \eta$, with the decay angular distribution having about a 10% probability of being isotropic. At the 70% confidence level, the branching ratio into $\pi \rho$ relative to $\pi \eta$ is <0.25, and the amount of any $K^{-}{K}^0$ enhancement near 1 GeV, normalized to the ${\pi }^{-}\eta$ signal from $\pi _N^{}{}_{}{}^{-}\mathrm{}\left(980\right)\mathrm{}$ decay, is <0.2.

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