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Audubon, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Audubon City. It lies in ZIP code area 56511. The Survey maps it on the Audubon quadrangle. 560 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Audubon within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Audubon grew from 519 to 560 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
2010519
2020560+41 (+8%)

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.

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Audubon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 911 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning29
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
5 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2006Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2015Fireworks6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictWESTBURY NORTH WPA #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Audubon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Anderson Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Audubon in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000Trees were blown down south of Audubon.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAudubon-Large branches cracked off trees. East side of pump house lost most shingles.
July 2022HailAudubon-Hail from ping pong ball to hen egg size was reported near little cormorant lake. Reports and photos posted via social media. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2019HailAudubon-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2012HailAudubon-Very strong winds accompanied the hail and tore a few shingles off the roof of a house.
July 2019HailAudubon-no account filed
July 2016HailAudubon-no account filed
May 2010HailAudubon-no account filed
July 2002HailAudubon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
Richards4.1 miles11
LaBelle4.5 miles7
Westbury5.3 miles9
Lake Park6.2 miles7
Detroit Lakes7.9 miles10
Lake Eunice8.1 miles16
Shoreham8.5 miles11
Callaway9.1 miles9

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 AudubonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1855333The 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 639504. 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.