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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Auburn, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45013. It stands on Salmon Run. The Survey maps it on the Millville quadrangle.

Auburn within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Auburn, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Auburn, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1905 county history

25,952 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ross Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ross Township - 25,952 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,850 shown

Museums hold 1,850 specimens collected within 10 miles of Auburn between 1835 and 1975: 865 Animalia, 761 Fungi, 153 Plantae, 57 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. V. J.; W. G. S., A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of LeptostromataceaeLeptostromataceae1883Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883W. A. KellermanLancaster.
Specimen of Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.1888J. L. James
A photograph of the species Carex careyana, not of this specimenCarex careyana Torr. ex Dewey1835Collector unknownIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.1835Collector unspecified"Miami"
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1835B. FrankIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
A photograph of the species Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tringa solitaria, not of this specimenTringa solitaria A.Wilson, 18131879Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Charadrius semipalmatus, not of this specimenCharadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 18251880not recorded
A photograph of the species Chlidonias niger, not of this specimenChlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tringa melanoleuca, not of this specimenTringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Gavia immer, not of this specimenGavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)1881Porter, J.B.

All 1,850 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Auburn: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Watson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms nearby

3 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Auburn in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Flash FloodAuburn-Water was flowing over Layhigh Road near Chapel Road. Water was overtopping the road at the location of a culvert.
June 2025FloodAuburn-High water was reported on Hamilton Scipio Road near Chapel Road.
September 2022FloodAuburn-High water was reported near the intersection of Layhigh and Chapel Roads.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Layhigh2.1 miles14
Bunker Hill2.1 miles14
Saint Charles2.1 miles14
Millville2.5 miles14
Queen Acres3.3 miles14
McGonigle3.9 miles14
Hanover (historical)3.9 miles14
Reily4.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064353. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.