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Auburn, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42206. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 1,589 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Auburn within Logan 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 1,340 to 1,589 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
20101,340
20201,589+249 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Auburn between 2000 and 2020, burning about 52 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
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 June 2012Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTAMPS FIR
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySSTEVENSON MILL II
6 April 2013Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAMILY VISIT
8 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 November 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONGOMERY ROAD
23 October 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOVERHOLT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
May 1995HailAuburn$75,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindAuburn$30,000A grain bin was blown over near Auburn.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAuburn$5,000The roof was blown off a building.
June 1994HailAuburn$50no account filed
May 2024Flash FloodAuburn-Debris from flood waters had to be removed from a roadway in Auburn.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAuburn-A tree was blown down by strong winds, blocking West Main Street in Auburn.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Trees were reported down.
June 2019Flash FloodAuburn-Flash flooding was reported along East Main Street in Auburn, Kentucky.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAuburn-There were multiple reports of trees down in Auburn.
September 2017Flash FloodAuburn-Local law enforcement reported Highway 103 near Lashley Road near Auburn was impassable due to high water.
May 2016Flash FloodAuburn-Public reported high water flowing over Highway 103 in Logan County.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindAuburn-The Logan County Road Department reported two trees downed just west of the town of Auburn.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Roof damage was reported.
May 2010Flash FloodAuburn-Logan county dispatch reported flash flooding had caused problems along Main St. in Auburn.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAuburn-A couple of trees were downed in the Auburn area.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Two trees were downed.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Auburn-A tornado touched down briefly along Liberty Church Road in Auburn. The path length and width are estimated. No damage was done, so the intensity is also an estimate.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Auburn-Brief tornado touchdown in field along Highway 103
February 2025HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
May 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
April 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
September 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2000HailAuburn-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Liberty (historical)2.0 miles8
South Union3.0 miles8
Sugar Grove (historical)3.2 miles8
Friendship (historical)3.8 miles9
Dennis4.3 miles9
Rogers4.4 miles8
Duncans Shed (historical)5.6 miles9
Gasper6.2 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 Q758543The 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 486133. 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.