Auburn, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Farmington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58237. The Survey maps it on the Saint Thomas quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAuburn fell from 48 to 31 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 | 48 | |
| 2020 | 31 | -17 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1939 USGS Glasston quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Glasston quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS St. Thomas quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Auburn between 2017 and 2020, burning about 380 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 10 SWEENEY |
| 22 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | NORTH SALT LAKE |
| 21 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LANDFILL |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CTY 9 |
| 3 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 74TH ST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flood | Auburn | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Strong winds blew over a grain auger. Small branches were also blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Several large tree branches were blown down at a homestead in northern Farmington Township. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Approximately the top thirty feet of a 100 foot tall cottonwood tree was twisted off as a gust front pushed through a farmstead. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Several large tree branches and tree limbs were snapped off in shelterbelts along U. S. Highway 81. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Several large tree branches and tree limbs were snapped off in shelterbelts along U. S. Highway 81. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Around 3 inches of rain fell in 2 to 3 hours, which flooded fields and farm access roads. Water also overtopped several township roads. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | 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.
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 Auburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4136339 | 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 1027760. 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.
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.








