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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.

Auburn within Sac County

Population over time

2 figures

Auburn 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.

YearPeople Change
2010322
2020265-57 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hosteng Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Otto PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sac County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAuburn$250,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAuburn$150,000no account filed
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Auburn$50,000Report 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 1998HailAuburn$25,000no account filed
June 2004HailAuburn$2,000no account filed
August 2023Tornado (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 2021HailAuburn-Public report of ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2020HailAuburn-Wind-driven hail caused significant damage northeast of Breda. Winds Estimated to be 60 mph or greater. Delayed Report. Time estimated by radar.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Auburn-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Auburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sac County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Grant City1.2 miles8
Ulmer4.0 miles8
Hart6.2 miles8
Carnarvon7.6 miles8
Pettis8.7 miles8
Lakeview10.0 miles8
Lake View10.2 miles8
Sac City Junction (historical)10.4 miles8

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 AuburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1922703The 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.