Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Auburn, KS

Auburn is a small city in Shawnee County, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Topeka, and it is part of the Topeka metropolitan area.

Auburn was founded in 1856 as Brownville, after John W. Brown pre-empted 320 acres with M.C. Dickey, Loring Farnsworth and Henry Fox for a townsite; the name was changed to Auburn in 1857.

John W. Brown had first come to the area in July 1854 and acquired 800 acres by bartering with the local Native American tribes before going back to Missouri to recruit settlers.

Missionary Robert Simmerwell worked among the Native Americans at Auburn in its earliest years.

For most of its history Auburn was barely a village — the 1910 census-era count found only about 72 people there — and although it was founded in 1856, it did not incorporate as a city until 1963, more than a century later.

The 2020 census counted 1,273 people in Auburn living in 483 households, most of its growth coming in recent decades as it became a quiet commuter community for Topeka.

Auburn Elementary School, at 810 North Commercial Street, anchors the town and serves the westernmost and largest geographic attendance area in the Auburn-Washburn USD 437 district, formed in 1966; older Auburn students attend Washburn Rural High School.

The city is surrounded by Auburn Township, which had 3,312 residents in the 2020 census, so far more people live in the countryside around Auburn than inside the city limits.