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Mount Auburn, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52313. The Survey maps it on the Brandon quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Mount Auburn within Benton County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Auburn grew from 150 to 162 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
2010150
2020162+12 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mount Auburn between 2007 and 2018, burning about 258 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning200 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesVINTON FIRE
24 March 2017Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mount Auburn: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Coots Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Aungst Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Demmel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Froning QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glory QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mt. Auburn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
White QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Vinton7.0 miles9
Benton Station (historical)8.1 miles9
Garrison8.1 miles9
Cheney8.8 miles10
Geneva9.7 miles9
Benton City (historical)10.7 miles13
Urbana11.8 miles14
Manatheka (historical)11.9 miles14

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 Mount AuburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926583The 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 459272. 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.

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.