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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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
Audobon County Court Houselisted 2003
Audubon County Home Historic Districtlisted 2015- Ross Grain Elevatorlisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresAudubon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,176 | |
| 2020 | 2,053 | -123 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Audubon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Audubon quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Guthrie Center quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1464 210TH ST., AUDUBON, IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 96 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Flood | Audubon | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $100,000 | High 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 1998 | Flood | Audubon | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Audubon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Audubon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Audubon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $45,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $30,000 | Numerous tree branches were down all over town. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Audubon | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $15,000 | Winds blew down a few large trees and several 5 to 10 inch diameter limbs were downed in Audubon. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Audubon | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported power lines down on the northeast side of Audubon. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $10,000 | Winds estimated up to 70 MPH causing the building to shake. Spotter unable to open doors to outside due to wind. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $10,000 | Wind report was from the Audubon Community schoolnet. ID SAUI4. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Audubon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Audubon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Audubon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Flood | Audubon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Audubon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $5,000 | Semi truck was blown over on the highway north of Audubon. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | Winds of 45 to 50 MPH also occurred with the hail. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Audubon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | A few large branches were down in town. |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Audubon | $2,000 | Tornado tracked through open fields. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Audubon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Audubon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Audubon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Audubon | $1,000 | 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.
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 Audubon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1898100 | 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 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.






