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.
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
G. W. Davidson House and Banklisted 1982
McCutchen Meadowslisted 1984- Auburn Historic Districtlisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresAuburn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,340 | |
| 2020 | 1,589 | +249 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | STAMPS FIR |
| 7 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SSTEVENSON MILL II |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FAMILY VISIT |
| 8 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MONGOMERY ROAD |
| 23 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | OVERHOLT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Auburn | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | $30,000 | A grain bin was blown over near Auburn. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | $5,000 | The roof was blown off a building. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Auburn | $50 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Debris from flood waters had to be removed from a roadway in Auburn. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | A tree was blown down by strong winds, blocking West Main Street in Auburn. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Trees were reported down. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Flash flooding was reported along East Main Street in Auburn, Kentucky. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | There were multiple reports of trees down in Auburn. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Local law enforcement reported Highway 103 near Lashley Road near Auburn was impassable due to high water. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Public reported high water flowing over Highway 103 in Logan County. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | The Logan County Road Department reported two trees downed just west of the town of Auburn. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Roof damage was reported. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Logan county dispatch reported flash flooding had caused problems along Main St. in Auburn. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | A couple of trees were downed in the Auburn area. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Two trees were downed. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (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 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Auburn | - | Brief tornado touchdown in field along Highway 103 |
| February 2025 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty (historical) | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| South Union | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Sugar Grove (historical) | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Friendship (historical) | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Dennis | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Rogers | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Duncans Shed (historical) | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Gasper | 6.2 miles | 8 |
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 Auburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q758543 | 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 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.



