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.
Population over time
2 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 456 | |
| 2020 | 411 | -45 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Gaylord quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS New Auburn quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 61 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | New Auburn | - | There were multiple reports of flooding via the Sibley County dispatch center. Township roads and culverts were damaged. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Auburn | - | Several trees were uprooted or snapped in New Auburn. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | New Auburn | - | Several citizens reported funnel clouds in the area. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Auburn | - | Several trees felled. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Auburn | - | Scattered trees felled. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | New Auburn | - | Four to five inches rain produced street flooding. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Auburn | - | Few trees down. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | New Auburn | - | Brief touchdown on north end of Shilling Lake. Roof damage and large trees down on farmstead. Windows broken. |
| July 1995 | Hail | New Auburn | - | Tree damage at farmstead. |
| August 2023 | Hail | New Auburn | - | no account filed |
| September 2020 | Hail | New Auburn | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | New Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | New Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Auburn | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | New Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | New 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaylord | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Arlington | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Winthrop | 11.6 miles | 10 | |
| New Rome | 11.6 miles | 11 | |
| Green Isle | 11.7 miles | 11 | |
| Rush River | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Jessenland | 17.7 miles | 11 | |
| Assumption | 18.1 miles | 11 |
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 Auburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227917 | 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 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.






