Auburn, Washington Auburn, Washington Flag of Auburn, Washington Location of Auburn in King County.
Location of Auburn in King County.
Auburn, Washington is positioned in the US Auburn, Washington - Auburn, Washington Auburn is a town/city in King County and extraly Pierce County, Washington, United States; with the majority of spatial territory area inside King County.
The populace was 70,180 at the 2010 United States Census. Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle urbane area.
Auburn is presently ranked the fourteenth biggest city in the state of Washington. Auburn is bordered by the metros/cities of Federal Way, Pacific, and Algona to the west, Sumner to the south, Kent to the north, and unincorporated King County to the east.
2.1 Geographic locale of Auburn 9.6 Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation Auburn was originally incorporated as Slaughter, Washington after Lt.
In 1893, a large group of pioneer from Auburn, New York, moved to Slaughter, and retitled the town to "Auburn." Due to this history, when Auburn was building its second high school in the mid-1990s, there was a grass-roots accomplishment to name the high school "Slaughter High School," but it was eventually decided that the name would be "Auburn Riverside High School," whose mascots are the Ravens. There are a several locations in and around Auburn on the National and State Registers of Historic Places including the Neely Mansion.
The town/city of Auburn, positioned 28 miles (45 km) south of Seattle, Washington, was home to some of the earliest pioneer in King County.
Nestled in a fertile river valley, Auburn has been both a farm improve and a center of company and trade for more than 150 years.
Auburn is positioned near the initial confluence of the Green and White rivers, both of which contain runoff water from the Cascade Mountain range.
In November, a military unit led by Lieutenant William Slaughter camped near what is now present-day Auburn.
Within two years, the town was retitled Auburn, taken from the first line of Oliver Goldsmith's poem, The Deserted Village: "Sweet Auburn! Auburn had been a bustling center for hop farming until 1890 when the crops were finished by aphids.
This dam on the Green River, along with the Mud Mountain Dam on the White River, provided controlled river management, which left the valley almost flood-free and opened up the rich bottom lands for industrialized development.
Through the twentieth century Auburn interval like many American towns.
The post-war era was prosperous to Auburn, bringing more businesses and a improve college to the city.
In 2008, Auburn almost doubled its populace by annexing the West Hill and Lea Hill neighborhoods of unincorporated King County.
Auburn is positioned at 47 18 8 N 122 12 53 W (47.302322, -122.214779). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.89 square miles (77.41 km2), of which, 29.62 square miles (76.72 km2) is territory and 0.27 square miles (0.70 km2) is water. Two rivers, the White River and, to a greater extent, the Green River flow through Auburn.
Historically, the Stuck River ran through the settlement of Stuck, which is now a small pocket of unincorporated King County inside southern Auburn.
Stuck River Drive, inside Auburn, but today it is essentially indistinguishable from the southern White River. Auburn has an extensive fitness of parks, open space and urban trails consisting of 28 advanced parks, over 23 miles of trails (including Auburn's 4.5 mile portion of the Interurban Trail for bikers, walkers, runners and skaters), and nearly 247 acres of open space for passive and active recreation.
The Auburn Environmental Park (AEP) is an innovative universal that seeks to problematic a regionally momentous open space in an urbanized region that offers opportunities for wetland ecosystem restoration, fish and wildlife enhancement, water character improvement, economic development, stormwater detention and flood control, enhance education, and recreation.
Climate data for Auburn, Washington Auburn (Sounder station) positioned downtown is a primary hub for the Green River Valley, also home to the Auburn International Farmers Market which is held on Sundays.
Auburn has many large roads close-by and inside town/city limits, including Washington State Route 167 generally alluded as the "Valley Freeway," and Washington State Route 18.
Auburn also has its own Transit Center, Auburn (Sounder station) in downtown, making it a central gateway key to access with Sound Transit to the entire Puget Sound area.
Sound Transit buses connect the Auburn Transit Center directly to the Federal Way, Sumner, & Kent Transit Centers, while King County Metro buses connect the Transit Center to Green River Community College, the Super Mall, and Auburn Way.
Until 1987 Auburn was also the home for a steam locomotive roundhouse and diesel engine home of the Northern Pacific Railway, the BNSF Railway of today.
BNSF maintains a rail yard and small car repair facility, along with maintenance-of-way facilities at the former NP yard. In addition, the Auburn Municipal Airport serves the general aviation community. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 82.80 percent White, 2.42 percent African American, 2.54 percent Native American, 3.50 percent Asian, 0.51 percent Pacific Islander, 3.66 percent from other competitions, and 4.56 percent from two or more competitions.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 26.6 percent under the age of eighteen, 9.5 percent from eighteen to 24, 31.6 percent from 25 to 44, 20.7 percent from 45 to 64, and 11.6 percent who were 65 years of age or older.
North Auburn A mix of commercial and single-family housing separated by Auburn Way North.
River's Bend A small residentiary neighborhood nestled along the Green River, positioned at the bottom of Lea Hill in North Auburn.
Christopher/Thomas An region in North Auburn approximately bordered by the Valley Drive Inn and 227th Street.
Hazelwood The region on Lea Hill between Green River Community College, and Auburn Mountainview High School.
West Hill Located on the West Hill, bordered by the town/city of Federal Way to the west.
South Auburn A general region located south of downtown, once a low-income region but becoming a commercial zone.
The town/city of Auburn is a mayor-council form of government meaning the mayor is a full-time, separately voted for position.
The current Mayor is Nancy Backus, who was voted for in 2013 and is the first female to serve in the office since Auburn was incorporated in 1891.
Backus served on the Auburn City Council since 2003 and spent the last two years as deputy mayor.
Auburn City Hall, 2007.
Auburn Council members Auburn is the site for the Northwest command posts of United States General Services Administration.
Auburn, Washington is designated by the Veterans Day National Committee and the US Department of Veterans Affairs as a Regional Site for celebration of Veterans Day.
See Auburn Police Department (Washington) Using King County's Annexation Initiative, Auburn took in Lea Hill and West Hill in 2008.
The Auburn Boeing Plant, opened in 1966, is the biggest aircraft parts plant in the world with 2,100,000 square feet (200,000 m2) and 1,265,000 parts being produced each year. With over 5,000 employees, the Boeing plant is the third primary employer in Auburn.
According to Auburn's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Auburn School District 1,800 6 Auburn Medical Center 805 All cash made in the casino directly benefits the Muckleshoot Tribal Community, providing education and low-cost community care for tribal inhabitants and the Auburn Community and the rest through charitable donations.
The White River Valley Museum's exhibits feature Auburn, from Native American history to the 1920s.
Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation Auburn has an extensive fitness of parks, open space and urban trails: 28 advanced parks, over 23 miles of trails (including Auburn's 4.5 mile portion of the Inter-urban Trail for bikers, walkers, runners and skaters), and nearly 247 acres of open space for passive and active recreation.
The City of Auburn also offers a range of cultural arts programming for performing arts, visual arts, enhance art, special affairs and more! Christine Gregoire interval up in Auburn, she visited both Cascade Middle School, and Auburn Senior High School.
Greg Haugen was born and raised in Auburn, and interval up to turn into a experienced boxer.
Commander Dick Scobee, visited school and briefly lived in Auburn, where his father Frank was a road foreman of engines for the Northern Pacific Railway.
Dick visited Washington Elementary in Auburn.
North Auburn Elementary was the school chosen to be titled after him after the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.
He visited and played for Auburn Senior High School and the University of Washington.
Misty Upham, a Native American actress best known from the movie Frozen River, was raised in Auburn.
Auburn Senior High, opened 1950.Auburn's newest elected High School, Auburn Mountainview.
In addition to the Auburn School District, Green River Community College also resides in Auburn, up on Lea Hill.
Currently the Auburn School District has fourteen elementary schools, four middle schools and three high schools, making twenty-two schools in all.
The district's newest school is Auburn High School.
The precinct is larger than the town/city itself, serving the neighboring suburbs of Algona and Pacific, as well as some unincorporated areas around Auburn and Kent.
Auburn High School Auburn Trojans Green/Gold 1,476 Auburn Riverside High School Auburn Ravens Navy/Teal/Silver 1,579 Auburn Mountainview High School Auburn Lions Blue/Orange 1,472 West Auburn Secondary High School Auburn Wolves Silver/Black 275 Auburn Adventist Academy Auburn Falcons Blue/Gold 310 Rainier Christian High School Auburn Mustangs Blue/Silver 130 Cascade Middle School is positioned in North Auburn, and has a pupil populace of 750.
Baker Middle School is positioned in the Southwest Region of Auburn.
Olympic Middle School is positioned in South Auburn and has about 700 pupils.
Alpac ES, Located in Pacific, Washington - Opened in 1973 and titled for the metros/cities of Algona and Pacific.
Dick Scobee ES - Dick Scobee Elementary opened in 1959 as North Auburn Elementary and was retitled for the famed astronaut and Auburn High School graduate who died as commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Evergreen Heights ES - Opened in 1970, positioned on the West Hill of Auburn.
Gildo Rey ES - Opened in 1969, under the name of South Auburn Elementary and was retitled in 1976 with respect to a longtime faculty member, Gildo Rey.
Rainier Christian Schools- Kent View , Located in Auburn, Washington - Opened on September 1, 2005 after buying the property from Thomas Academy.
Hazelwood ES - Opened 1990, on Auburn's Lea Hill.
Lakeland Hills ES - Auburn's biggest Elementary school, opened in the Lakeland Hills improve 2006.
Lea Hill ES - Opened in 1965 as one of only 11 schools in the United States designated as a National Educational landmark by the National Park Service.
Washington ES - The earliest Elementary school in Auburn, positioned next to Auburn High School, originally opened in 1920, was completed and re-built in 1970.
Arthur Jacobsen ES - Opened in 2007, on the former Jacobsen Tree farm and on the lower portion of Auburn Mountainview's campus.
"AJ" is presently the youngest school in the Auburn School District.
Auburn Good Ol' Days The City of Auburn has designated the following landmarks: Auburn Masonic Temple, 1923-24 2002 302-310 E.
Main Street Auburn, WA - Masonic Temple 01.jpg Auburn Post Office 1937 2000 20 Auburn Avenue NE Auburn, WA - former postal service 01 Auburn Public Library 1914 1995 306 Auburn Avenue NE Auburn, WA - Auburn Dance Center 02.jpg Auburn Justice Center.
Auburn has five sister metros/cities -- Kent, Washington, neighboring them to the north, and Tamba, a town/city in the Hyogo prefecture of Japan.
The Other metros/cities are Pyeongchang, Korea, which Auburn has a friendship exchange agreement with, and Guanghan, China, Sichuan Province in which Auburn also has a friendship exchange.
In 2012 the town/city of Auburn established a formal sister metros/cities agreement with Mola di Bari, Italy "Auburn Real Estate".
"Welcome to S50 Auburn Municipal Airport near Seattle and Tacoma Washington (WA)".
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