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Audubon, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Leroy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50025. The Survey maps it on the Audubon quadrangle. 2,053 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

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Audubon within Audubon County

On record in Audubon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Audubon fell from 2,176 to 2,053 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
20102,176
20202,053-123 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Audubon in 2010, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1464 210TH ST., AUDUBON, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Audubon County

Storms near this place

60 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Audubon in 96 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 39 thunderstorm wind, 38 hail, 8 heavy rain, 5 flood. 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
April 2007FloodAudubon$250,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAudubon$100,000High winds in Audubon caused damage to a local church. A structure holding the Ten Commandments was destroyed by the winds as they were torn down from the church.
June 1998FloodAudubon$100,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodAudubon$50,000no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodAudubon$50,000no account filed
June 1996FloodAudubon$50,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAudubon$45,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindAudubon$30,000Numerous tree branches were down all over town.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAudubon$30,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAudubon$30,000no account filed
June 1996FloodAudubon$30,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAudubon$20,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAudubon$15,000Winds blew down a few large trees and several 5 to 10 inch diameter limbs were downed in Audubon.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAudubon$15,000no account filed
July 1999HailAudubon$15,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAudubon$10,000Emergency manager reported power lines down on the northeast side of Audubon. Time estimated from radar.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAudubon$10,000Winds estimated up to 70 MPH causing the building to shake. Spotter unable to open doors to outside due to wind.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAudubon$10,000Wind report was from the Audubon Community schoolnet. ID SAUI4.
May 2005HailAudubon$10,000no account filed
May 2004HailAudubon$10,000no account filed
August 2004HailAudubon$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailAudubon$10,000no account filed
July 1998FloodAudubon$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailAudubon$10,000no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindAudubon$5,000Semi truck was blown over on the highway north of Audubon.
August 2007HailAudubon$5,000Winds of 45 to 50 MPH also occurred with the hail.
May 2012HailAudubon$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailAudubon$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailAudubon$5,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAudubon$5,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAudubon$5,000no account filed
May 2001HailAudubon$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailAudubon$5,000no account filed
July 1999HailAudubon$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAudubon$5,000no account filed
May 2005HailAudubon$3,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAudubon$3,000no account filed
May 2004HailAudubon$3,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAudubon$3,000no account filed
May 2002HailAudubon$3,000no account filed
August 2002HailAudubon$3,000no account filed
May 2001HailAudubon$3,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000A few large branches were down in town.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Audubon$2,000Tornado tracked through open fields.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000no account filed
May 2005HailAudubon$2,000no account filed
May 2005HailAudubon$2,000no account filed
May 2005HailAudubon$2,000no account filed
May 2004HailAudubon$2,000no account filed
August 2004HailAudubon$2,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000no account filed
July 1999HailAudubon$2,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000no account filed
May 2013HailAudubon$1,000no account filed
April 2007HailAudubon$1,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindAudubon$1,000no account filed
April 2005HailAudubon$1,000no account filed
July 2003HailAudubon$1,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Audubon 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
Nishna1.7 miles11
Hamlin3.8 miles11
Ross3.9 miles9
Sharon4.5 miles11
Poplar8.7 miles8
Gray8.8 miles9
Larland9.0 miles11
Viola Center9.2 miles9

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 AudubonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1898100The 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 454280. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.