Auburn is a city in
King County,
Washington
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, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring
Pierce County). The population was 87,256 at the
2020 Census.
Auburn is a suburb in the
Seattle metropolitan area
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, and is currently ranked as the
14th largest city in the state of Washington.
Auburn is bordered by the cities of
Federal Way
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,
Pacific
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, and
Algona to the west,
Sumner to the south,
Kent
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to the north, and unincorporated
King County to the east. The
Muckleshoot Indian Reservation lies to the south and southeast.
History
Before the first non-indigenous settlers arrived in the Green River Valley in the 1850s, the area was home to the
Muckleshoot
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