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.
Population over time
2 figuresAudubon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 519 | |
| 2020 | 560 | +41 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Audubon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Detroit Lakes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
65 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2015 | Fireworks | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | WESTBURY NORTH WPA #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | $2,000 | Trees were blown down south of Audubon. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Audubon | - | Large branches cracked off trees. East side of pump house lost most shingles. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Audubon | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Audubon | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Audubon | - | Very strong winds accompanied the hail and tore a few shingles off the roof of a house. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Audubon | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Audubon | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Audubon | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Audubon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richards | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| LaBelle | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Westbury | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Park | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Detroit Lakes | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lake Eunice | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Shoreham | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Callaway | 9.1 miles | 9 |
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 Audubon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1855333 | 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 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.





