Do you know of Auburn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Auburn. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Auburn.
Our sources for Auburn (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Auburn other than they indicate that Auburn would be found somewhere in Oakland County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1825 and closed in 1866.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Auburn ...
We found 49 communities that share the name Auburn.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Auburn.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 45 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 45 communities, 43 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Auburn, we know of three communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Bay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Auburn [Bay County].
- Bay County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Auburn [Lee County].
- Arkansas
- Sebastian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Auburn [Sebastian County].
- California
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Auburn [Placer County].
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Auburn [Weld County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Auburn [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Okaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Auburn [Okaloosa County].
- Georgia
- Barrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Auburn [Barrow County].
- Illinois
- Clark County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Auburn [Clark County].
- Sangamon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Auburn [Sangamon County].
- Indiana
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Auburn [DeKalb County].
- Iowa
- Sac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Auburn [Sac County].
- Kansas
- Shawnee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Auburn [Shawnee County].
- Kentucky
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Auburn [Logan County].
- Maine
- Androscoggin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Auburn [Androscoggin County].
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Auburn [Prince George's County].
- Massachusetts
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Auburn [Worcester County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Auburn [Lincoln County].
- Nebraska
- Nemaha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Auburn [Nemaha County].
- Nevada
- Washoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Auburn [Washoe County].
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Auburn [Rockingham County].
- New Jersey
- Salem County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Auburn [Salem County].
- New York
- Cayuga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Auburn [Cayuga County].
- North Carolina
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Auburn [Wake County].
- North Dakota
- Walsh County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Auburn [Walsh County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Auburn.
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Auburn.
- Oregon
- Baker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Auburn [Baker County].
- Pennsylvania
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Auburn [Schuylkill County].
- Susquehanna County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Auburn [Susquehanna County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Auburn.
- Rhode Island
- Providence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Auburn [Providence County].
- South Carolina
- Darlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Auburn [Darlington County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Ellis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Auburn [Ellis County].
- Virginia
- Fauquier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Auburn [Fauquier County].
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Auburn [King County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Auburn [Ritchie County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Australia
- - South Australia
- We haven't found the location of this Auburn
- - New South Wales
- We haven't found the location of this Auburn
- Ireland
- We haven't found the location of this Auburn
- Australia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Auburn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Auburn:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Auburn - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Oakland County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Oakland County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Auburn could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |