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Auburn, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Auburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66402. It stands on North Branch Wakarusa River. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 1,273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Auburn within Shawnee County

On record in Auburn

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

Auburn grew from 1,227 to 1,273 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
20101,227
20201,273+46 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

160 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Auburn between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,340 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning108
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015469
4 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service307
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service280
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service275
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service271
3 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service327
27 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service298
22 July 2017Naturalunder an acreShawnee County255

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn in 66 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 28 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
February 1996WildfireAuburn3 hurt, $250,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodAuburn$500,000Water flowing across Auburn Road from the town of Auburn to 61st Street. Debris is floating across the road. Many county roads flooded south of 61st street between Urish and Hoch roads. Water flowing over Northeast 64th and Meriden streets. Cars stalled on Topeka Blvd between 42nd and 45th streets. Shunganunga Creek out of its banks at Duncan Ct. and Gage near 25th Street. Six inches of water flowing over Kansas Ave. between 29th and 21st streets.
August 2001LightningAuburn$375,000Lightning struck a house and started a fire that destroyed the house.
August 2001LightningAuburn$75,000Lightning struck a house and started a fire that destroyed the house.
October 1998Tornado (F1)Auburn$5,000An F1 tornado touched down 2 miles northeast of Auburn and moved northeast about 1 mile before dissipating.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindAuburn$1,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Several large trees damaged.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Three inch tree limbs broken, power poles broken.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Large tree uprooted. Delayed report via social media.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Report via social media of estimated winds of 75 to 80 mph.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Tree limbs 2 to 3 inches in diameter blown down.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Large tree, several feet in diameter, was knocked over and crushed a car.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Report of tree blown down.
May 2016FloodAuburn-Public report of water running out of fields and over roads. Partially due to hail plugging up waterways.
April 2016HailAuburn-Half-dollar size hail reported by Emergency Manager.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Four inch diameter healthy tree limb broken off.
June 2015Flash FloodAuburn-Fire department reported 10 inches of water running across 61st and Auburn rd.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Wind gusts estimated.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Tree down across a power line.
September 2015Flash FloodAuburn-Flooding at 61st and Auburn rd. Water rescue conducted due to car in deep water.
September 2015Flash FloodAuburn-Six mile creek is running over the bridge at 61st and Shadyridge lane.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Large branches down in Auburn.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAuburn-On the west side of Topeka reports of large trees broken were received.
May 2011Funnel CloudAuburn-A funnel cloud witnessed by many people including an off-duty National Weather Service meteorologist formed near Auburn and persisted for approximately 15 minutes before eventually dissipating.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAuburn-A trained spotter and public person each reported wind gusts up to 80mph.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Auburn-The public reported a tornado near Washburn Rural High School near 61st and Wanamaker Road. Several storm chasers and spotters reported a funnel cloud in the vicinity before the tornado was reported.
June 2008HailAuburn-A swath of hail up to two inches in diameter at two locations was reported by several spotters.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Power poles reported to have blown down.
July 2020HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2017HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2012HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2012HailAuburn-no account filed
March 2012HailAuburn-no account filed
August 2009HailAuburn-no account filed
April 2008HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudAuburn-no account filed
June 2008HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudAuburn-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
June 2008HailAuburn-no account filed
April 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2005HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2005HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2005HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2005HailAuburn-no account filed
October 2005Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
May 2004HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2004HailAuburn-no account filed
July 2003HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2002HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
May 2002HailAuburn-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
April 2001HailAuburn-no account filed
April 2001HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2001HailAuburn-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
May 2000HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2000HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Cullen Village6.5 miles18
Wakarusa6.5 miles18
Dover7.6 miles16
Pauline7.7 miles18
Terra Heights8.6 miles18
Berryton10.1 miles18
Mathews Park10.6 miles18
Highland Park11.5 miles21

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 Q1816552The 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 479054. 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.