Auburn, Alabama Auburn, Alabama Campus of Auburn University Campus of Auburn University Flag of Auburn, Alabama Flag Official seal of Auburn, Alabama Auburn, Alabama is positioned in the US Auburn, Alabama - Auburn, Alabama Auburn is a town/city in Lee County, Alabama, United States.
It is the biggest city in easterly Alabama with a 2015 populace of 62,059. It is a principal town/city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area.
Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University.
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! Downtown Auburn, Alabama.
Auburn was incorporated on February 2, 1839, in what was then Macon County, covering an region of 2 square miles (5.2 km2).
In 1856, the state council chartered a Methodist college, the East Alabama Male College in Auburn.
This college, now Auburn University, opened its doors in 1859, offering a classical and liberal education.
SIAA Conference championships won by the Auburn college's football team brought consideration and support to Auburn, and helped fill the city's coffers.
Due to these affairs, the state government became unable to fund the college, and as Auburn's economy was completely derived from the college inhabitants were forced into a barter economy to support themselves.
After the war, Auburn was flooded by soldiers returning to school on the G.I.
A considerable amount of residentiary and company construction pushed Auburn's expansion outside of the initial boundaries of the city, dominant to a series of large annexations which period Auburn to nearly 24 square miles (62 km2).
Construction of Interstate 85 beginning in 1957 connected Auburn to the primary cities of the state.
This allowed for Auburn University (renamed in 1960) to schedule more home football games in Auburn clean water in larger cities, creating a strong tourism component in Auburn's economy.
Growth slowed somewhat in the 1970s, and a series of budget cuts made it clear that Auburn's sole economic reliance on Auburn University put the town/city in a tenuous position.
As enhance satisfaction with the town/city administration reached record levels, Auburn began very rapid residentiary growth.
A series of reports in the 1980s and 1990s ranking the Auburn enhance school fitness among the top in the state and country convinced thousands of new inhabitants to move to Auburn over the past 25 years.
Between 1980 and 2003, Auburn's populace interval by 65%, and Auburn's economy period by 220%.
City map of Auburn.
Auburn City Hall Auburn has a council-manager government led by an eight-member town/city council, a mayor, and an appointed town/city manager.
The town/city council acts as a legislative body of the city, passing laws and regulations and appointing people to the city's various boards, including the Auburn City Board of Education.
Members of the current Auburn City Council are: The mayor of Auburn is propel in the town/city at-large to a four-year term.
The day-to-day operations of Auburn are run by the City Manager.
The current City Manager of Auburn is Charlie Duggan.
The United States Postal Service operates a postal service at 300 Opelika Road, Auburn, Alabama.
A creek flowing through Chewacla State Park in Auburn.
The town/city of Auburn lies in Lee County and is bordered by the town/city of Opelika to the northeast and by Chambers County to the north.
Portions of Auburn also include the southernmost exposure of rocks indicating the Appalachian orogeny as such, the last foothill of the Appalachian Mountains lies in Chewacla State Park in southern Auburn.
Auburn is drained by three chief creek systems: in the south, by the Chewacla/Opintlocco Creek system; in the north, by the Saugahatchee Creek system; and in the extreme northern reaches of Auburn by Sandy Creek.
The altitude of Auburn at City Hall is 709 ft (216 m) above sea level; though due to Auburn's diverse topography, altitude ranges from 386 ft (118 m) above sea level where Chewacla Creek crosses Sand Hill Road to 845 ft (258 m) above sea level in northern Auburn near the Chambers County line.
Hurricanes Opal in 1995 and Ivan in 2004 are among two of the most notable tropical systems to affect the Auburn region in recent memory, bringing torrential rains and high winds.
Winters are typically mild, with an average 0.7 inches (1.8 cm) of snowfall, though more than three-fourths of all seasons do not have any calculable snow. Most days have 50 F (10 C)+ highs, and from December to February, an average total of 10 11 days of 70 F (21 C)+ highs, while it rarely stays below freezing all day. However, the town/city straddles the border between USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 7 - B and 8 - A, and there are an average of 5.6 evenings with sub-20 F ( 7 C) lows. On the other end, summers are long, hot, and humid, with 57 days of 90 F (32 C)+ highs. Although the actual air temperature reaching 100 F (38 C) is uncommon (1.2 days annually), high humidity can push daytime heat indices over that mark.
The record high for Auburn is 103 F (39 C), set on July 15, 1980 (needs updating), and August 10, 1980, while the record low was 7 F ( 22 C), set on February 13, 1899, and January 21, 1985. Climate data for Auburn, Alabama (Auburn University) Samford Hall, on the Auburn University campus.
Auburn's economy is centered on Auburn University and providing university-affiliated services.
Auburn University employs 4,300 citizens , which is roughly one-quarter of the city's total workforce.
Auburn's industrialized base is assembled around mid-sized, high tech manufacturing and research firms.
Auburn has one industrialized park and four technology parks where chief areas of industrialized focus are on the manufacture of small engines, automotive wheels, fuel cells, plastic injection technology, and vehicle armor.
The 156-acre (0.63 km2) Auburn University Research Park opened in September, 2008 and will be anchored by a firm which specializes in research in high-resolution, dark field optical microscopy.
The department provides all law enforcement, enhance safety services, and emergency 911 response and dispatch services for the City of Auburn and the ground of Auburn University.
See also Auburn City Schools, Auburn High School (Alabama) and Auburn University.
Auburn City Schools command posts Auburn High School Library Auburn has one post-secondary school, Auburn University, which has an enrollment of just over 27,000.
Auburn University is a land-grant college and a sea and space grant college with traditionally strong programs in business, engineering, agriculture, and veterinary medicine.
Auburn University is a research institution, with major areas of research focus including wireless engineering, molecular biosciences, transportation, aquaculture, and forest sustainability.
Auburn is also home to a several research and development offices, including the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Auburn's enhance school fitness includes six elementary schools, one middle school, one junior high school, and one high school.
Auburn's school fitness has repeatedly been ranked among the top enhance school systems in the state and nation.
Auburn City Schools has been ranked among the top 100 school districts in the United States by Parenting periodical and as the best educational value in the Southeast by the Wall Street Journal.
Auburn's Early Education Center has specialized programs for autism education, has been recognized as a nationwide Blue Ribbon school, and is an Intel and Scholastic School of Distinction.
Wrights Mill Road Elementary School was recognized as a nationwide Blue Ribbon school in 2009, while Auburn Junior High School is recognized nationally for its 21st Century Laptop Learning Initiative, which places laptops in the hands of students in grades 8 and 9.
Auburn High School has strong International Baccalaureate, widely offered Advanced Placement, and famous music programs, and was ranked in 2006 by Newsweek as the top non-magnet enhance high school in Alabama, and one of the top 30 in the United States.
Auburn has the Auburn Public Library. Auburn is positioned in the southeastern part of Alabama and is accessible by Interstate 85, US 29, and US 280.
The town/city also has a general aviation airport, the Auburn University Regional Airport (AUO) (formerly Auburn-Opelika Robert G.
The primary commercial airports closest to Auburn are the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) (Atlanta) and the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM) (Birmingham).
Each of these airports is inside 2 hours driving distance from Auburn and together they offer air service to most of the world's primary airports.
There are also two county-wide airports close to Auburn: Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM) (Montgomery) and the Columbus Metropolitan Airport (CSG) (Columbus).
Auburn University provides the Tiger Transit bus system, which shuttles students, staff and faculty around ground and to region apartment complexes.
The Auburn Community Orchestra, as well as the bands of Auburn University and the Auburn High School Honors Band perform dozens of annual concerts, including a series of outside concerts in the fall at Kiesel Park.
Other musical series in Auburn include that of the Auburn Knights Orchestra, a big band jazz orchestra, and the Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series.
Auburn is also home to Auburn Area Community Theater (AACT), a community-based organization that puts on three productions a year, including a spring children's show.
Recreational opportunities in Auburn include 16 parks, highlighted by Chewacla State Park, a 700-acre (2.8 km2) park in the Appalachian foothills, Kiesel Park, a 200-acre (0.81 km2) "passive" park with various trails, and the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve.
Auburn has no experienced sports teams, but nonetheless has a vibrant sports culture due to the existence of Auburn University's NCAA Division I athletic squads.
Auburn University football in particular is a primary force in Auburn's culture and economy.
When Auburn University has home football games in the fall, the town/city often sees over 100,000 visitors, and the annual economic impact is calculated at nearly $100 million.
While other sports do not attract as many tourists to Auburn, the university's 17 varsity sports offer people a range of other opportunities for viewing competition at virtually the highest level.
Basketball is played at 9,600-seat Auburn Arena, while baseball games are held at 4,096-seat Plainsman Park, which was titled the top collegiate ballpark in the country by Baseball America in 2003.
One of Auburn's most competing sports is the swimming program, which has won seven of the last nine NCAA nationwide championships including the last five straight and 11 consecutive SEC men's championships.
More Olympic swimmers have come from Auburn's swimming program than any other college swimming program.
Auburn Links was rated as one of the top three new courses in the country when it opened in 1996, and the Robert Trent Jones-designed Grand National course in the Auburn metro is often cited as one of the top enhance courses in the nation.
Because of this, in 2005, the Auburn Metro Area was ranked number 1 in the United States for golf by Golf Digest.
Radio stations WEGL and WAUD are licensed to Auburn and broadcast from the city.
Newspapers serving the town/city include The Opelika-Auburn News, The Auburn Villager, and The Auburn Plainsman. Main article: List of Auburn, Alabama citizens Robert Gibbs, the 28th White House Press Secretary and the first Press Secretary for President Barack Obama, is a graduate of Auburn High School.
The book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace, and its derivative movie, Tim Burton's Big Fish, were both in part set in Auburn, though the movie was not filmed in Auburn.
Anne Rivers Siddons, an Auburn University alumna, portrayed a fictionalized Auburn ground and students in Heartbreak Hotel.
Pearson, Auburn University graduate and the granddaughter of one of that school's presidents, fictionalized Auburn in the mystery books she wrote.
Pharamond (Fair) Haristeen, in the mystery series written by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown, graduated from Auburn University's veterinary school in Auburn.
John Travolta plays Bobby Long, a former Auburn University English professor, in 2004's A Love Song for Bobby Long.
Long's protege and former Auburn University teaching assistant is a writer titled Lawson Pines, played by Gabriel Macht.
In the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, one of the chief villain's profiles states that he was a football player at Auburn University.
In the 1976 movie Stay Hungry, lead character Craig 'Buck' Blake (played by Jeff Bridges) says he is a scatback for the Auburn University football team.
On multiple episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Marshall Eriksen (played by Jason Segel) can be seen wearing an Auburn University T-shirt.
The children's chapter book Samantha Loses the Box Turtle is set in Auburn, AL and features a turtle that resides at the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve in Auburn.
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