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New Auburn, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Auburn City. It lies in ZIP code area 55366. It lies near High Island. The Survey maps it on the New Auburn quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

New Auburn within Sibley County

Population over time

2 figures

New Auburn fell from 456 to 411 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
2010456
2020411-45 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of New Auburn in 2011, burning about 61 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
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
30 October 2011Equipment and vehicle use61 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Sibley 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 New Auburn: 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
Reed's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sibley County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Auburn in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2024Flash FloodNew Auburn-There were multiple reports of flooding via the Sibley County dispatch center. Township roads and culverts were damaged.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Auburn-Several trees were uprooted or snapped in New Auburn.
June 2005Funnel CloudNew Auburn-Several citizens reported funnel clouds in the area.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Auburn-Several trees felled.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Auburn-Scattered trees felled.
July 2002Flash FloodNew Auburn-Four to five inches rain produced street flooding.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Auburn-Few trees down.
August 1997Tornado (F0)New Auburn-Brief touchdown on north end of Shilling Lake. Roof damage and large trees down on farmstead. Windows broken.
July 1995HailNew Auburn-Tree damage at farmstead.
August 2023HailNew Auburn-no account filed
September 2020HailNew Auburn-no account filed
August 2009HailNew Auburn-no account filed
June 2004HailNew Auburn-no account filed
May 2004HailNew Auburn-no account filed
September 2002HailNew Auburn-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Auburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sibley 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
Gaylord8.3 miles11
Arlington9.1 miles11
Winthrop11.6 miles10
New Rome11.6 miles11
Green Isle11.7 miles11
Rush River17.1 miles9
Jessenland17.7 miles11
Assumption18.1 miles11

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 New AuburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227917The 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 648503. 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.