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Audubon is a small city in Becker County in northwestern Minnesota, located near Lake Park and about seven miles northwest of Detroit Lakes.

Audubon's post office opened in 1872, and the town was first counted in the U.S. census in 1880 with just 91 residents.

U.S. Route 10 is the main route through Audubon, and Amtrak's Empire Builder passenger train passes through town on BNSF tracks without stopping — the nearest station is in Detroit Lakes.

The 2020 census counted 560 people in Audubon, the most in the city's history, up from 519 people in 194 households in 2010.

Audubon has grown steadily since bottoming out at 245 residents in 1960, more than doubling its population since then.

Audubon pairs with neighboring Lake Park in the Lake Park Audubon school district — the elementary school is in Audubon, the high school is in Lake Park, and the teams are the Raiders.

The 2005 film Sweet Land, a story of 1920s immigrant farm life, is set in Audubon, though it was actually filmed in Montevideo, Minnesota.

Audubon covers well under one square mile, all of it land, and its employers include a Team Industries factory facility alongside a grain elevator and small local businesses.

Audubon was notably young for a small Minnesota town in 2010, with a median age of 29.4 years and nearly a third of residents under 18.