Auburn, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Sac Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51433. The Survey maps it on the Grant City quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAuburn fell from 322 to 265 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 322 | |
| 2020 | 265 | -57 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Grant City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Auburn: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosteng Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Otto Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | $150,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Auburn | $50,000 | Report of damage from emergency manager later identified as a tornado path using high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado impacted a outbuilding and tossed debris northward into an agricultural field with EF0 damage. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Auburn | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Auburn | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Auburn | - | Tornado was found using high resolution satellite imagery. Tornado had a curved path through open agricultural fields. There was no damage to damage indicators, hence the EFU rating. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Auburn | - | Public report of ping pong ball sized hail. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Auburn | - | Wind-driven hail caused significant damage northeast of Breda. Winds Estimated to be 60 mph or greater. Delayed Report. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Auburn | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant City | 1.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ulmer | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Hart | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Carnarvon | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pettis | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lakeview | 10.0 miles | 8 | |
| Lake View | 10.2 miles | 8 | |
| Sac City Junction (historical) | 10.4 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Auburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1922703 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454279. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





