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Auburn, AL

Auburn, Alabama
City
Campus of Auburn University
Campus of Auburn University
Flag of Auburn, Alabama
Flag
Official seal of Auburn, Alabama
Seal
Motto: "The Loveliest Village On The Plains"
Location in Lee County in the state of Alabama
Location in Lee County in the state of Alabama
Auburn, Alabama is located in the US
Auburn, Alabama
Auburn, Alabama
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 32°35′52″N 85°28′51″W / 32.59778°N 85.48083°W / 32.59778; -85.48083Coordinates: 32°35′52″N 85°28′51″W / 32.59778°N 85.48083°W / 32.59778; -85.48083
Country United States
State Alabama
County Lee
Incorporated 1839
Government
 • Mayor Bill Ham Jr.
Area
 • City 59.1 sq mi (140.8 km2)
 • Land 58.07 sq mi (139.1 km2)
 • Water 0.4 sq mi (1.7 km2)
Elevation 702 ft (214 m)
Highest elevation 846 ft (258 m)
Lowest elevation 387 ft (118 m)
Population (2015)
 • City 62,059
 • Density 954.8/sq mi (368.65/km2)
 • Metro 150,933 (US: 270th)
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code 36830-36832, 36849
Area code(s) 334
FIPS code 01-03076
GNIS feature ID 0113277
Website www.auburnalabama.org

Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2015 population of 62,059. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 150,933, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 501,649 residents.

Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University. It is Alabama's fastest-growing metropolitan area and the nineteenth fastest-growing metro area in the United States since 1990. U.S. News ranked Auburn among its top ten list of best places to live in the United States for the year 2009. The city's unofficial nickname is “The Loveliest Village On The Plains,” taken from a line in the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: “Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain...”

Inhabited in antiquity by the Creek, the land on which Auburn sits was opened to settlement in 1832 with the Treaty of Cusseta. The first settlers arrived in the winter of 1836 from Harris County, Georgia. These settlers, led by Judge John J. Harper, intended to build a town that would be the religious and educational center for the area.

Auburn was incorporated on February 2, 1839, in what was then Macon County, covering an area of 2 square miles (5.2 km2). By that time, Methodist and Baptist churches had been established, and a school had been built and had come into operation. In the mid-1840s, separate academies for boys and girls were established in addition to the primary school. This concentration of educational institutions led to a rapid influx of families from the planter class into Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s. By 1858, of the roughly 1,000 free residents of Auburn, some 500 were students.


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