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History · New Auburn

New Auburn’s post office opened in 1904, and 30% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1949 on and the census since 1910.

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How New Auburn began

When was New Auburn founded?

1904

The New Auburn post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Cartwright's Mill (1879) and Cartwright (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 364 in 19102020 census: 562122 years
Founding year: the first New Auburn post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about New Auburn’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of New Auburn are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s New Auburn.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Auburn’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

New Auburn’s post office has been open since 1904. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Cartwright's Mill
1879–1881
Cartwright
1881–1902
New Auburn
1904–today
18701950today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

New Auburn, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of New Auburn yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

New Auburn is a village in Barron and Chippewa counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 562 at the 2020 census. Of these, 537 were in Chippewa County, and 25 were in Barron County. The village is located mostly within the Town of Auburn in Chippewa County. Small portions extend east into the adjacent Town of Bloomer, Chippewa County and north into the Town of Dovre in Barron County.

Its first post office opened in 1904. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 548 to 562 (+3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

New Auburn, 1879 to 1949

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Cartwright's Mill post office opens
  3. 1881Post officeThe Cartwright's Mill post office closes
  4. 1881Post officeThe Cartwright post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1902Post officeThe Cartwright post office closes
  7. 1904Post officeThe New Auburn post office opens
  8. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

New Auburn on the map, 1949 to 1975

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Auburn. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New Auburn on the 1949 USGS mapNew Auburn on the 1951 USGS mapNew Auburn on the 1975 USGS map1949New Auburn sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Auburn.

People over time

New Auburn, census by census

0100200300400500600192019401960198020002020Peak: 562

Between 364 and 562 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New Auburn’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to New Auburn

Nobody well known was born in New Auburn itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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J. B. Van HollenAmerican lawyer · b. 1966
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Leona E. TylerAmerican psychologist · b. 1906
Edward O. ShawAmerican fighter ace · b. 1920
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Lloyd EllingsonAmerican skier · b. 1908
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

DovreIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBloomerIts storyC+AuburnIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about New Auburn’s history

What year was New Auburn founded?

The New Auburn post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.