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Auburn, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Auburn City. It lies in ZIP code area 48611. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 2,068 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Auburn within Bay County

Population over time

2 figures

Auburn fell from 2,087 to 2,068 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
20102,087
20202,068-19 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Auburn city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Bay County, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883 - Auburn City

Biographical

Worthy Perry was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, 1838. Remained at birth-place until 1862, when he enhsted in the Union army. Company I, 105th Ohio Infantry, and served to the close of the war. Was in various engagements with the enemy, including the battle of Perry ville, Ky., in which he received 'a gun-shot wound, which disabled him for about two months in hospital; then returned to his regiment, and, unlike many others, has never applied for a pension, to help swell the milhons for the people to pay.

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In the county-history sources

10,538 words on this township

History of Bay County, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Auburn City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

is situated on the Midland road, one mile from the east hne of the township. There is one store, belonging to Mr. Ira E. Swart, a postoffice, two churches, Methodist and Cathohc, the Auburn House, a good brick hotel owned by W. P, Root, and some other buildings. There are two physicians located here. Auburn Lodge of Good Templars, No. 312, was organized February 6, 1880, with eighteen members. It now has thirty-five members, among whom are some of the best citizens of the place. The organization is in a flourishing condition.

Passage source: History of Bay County, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Auburn City.

Fires near this place

9 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Auburn between 2019 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2

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
25 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONITOR TOWNSHIP FD 673 - 2020
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN-WILLIAMS FD 387 - 2019
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN-WILLIAMS FD 330 - 2019
17 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONITOR TOWNSHIP FD 432 - 2019
29 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONITOR TOWNSHIP FD 285 - 2019
23 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN-WILLIAMS FD 143 - 2019
2 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONITOR TOWNSHIP FD 210 - 2019
16 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENLUST FD 282 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Auburn: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Consolidated No 3 Shale ProspectClayProspect
Gage Shale&Clay ProspectClay, Fire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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 1998Thunderstorm WindAuburn$200,000no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Auburn$10,000A weak tornado touched down near 11 mile and Salzburg Road, tracking east-northeast. The tornado lifted near 8 mile. Trees and power lines were blown down. A camper was also overturned.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAuburn$750Trained spotter reported that several 2 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down near Auburn by thunderstorm winds.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Large tree uprooted.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAuburn-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which took down powerlines.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Barns were destroyed in Frankenlust Township.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Local law enforcement reported power lines and a tree down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAuburn-Numerous trees and tree limbs blown down.
March 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
May 2006HailAuburn-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed
June 2005HailAuburn-no account filed
August 2000HailAuburn-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAuburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Fisherville2.1 miles11
North Williams2.7 miles11
Willard4.9 miles11
Three Churches Corner5.5 miles11
Seidlers5.6 miles11
Loehme6.0 miles11
Beaver7.5 miles11
Kawkawlin7.5 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 AuburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2630853The 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 620334. 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.

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.