Auburn, Indiana

Auburn is a city located in DeKalb County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 12,074. Founded in 1836 by Wesley Park (1811-1868), the city is the county seat of DeKalb County{{GR|6}}.

Other facts

• The acts that led to the US Supreme Court's decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978), the leading American case on judicial immunity, took place in Auburn in 1971.
• On June 28, 1988, four workers were asphyxiated at a local metal-plating plant in the worst confined-space industrial accident in US history. A fifth victim died two days later.