Aurora
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city in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- USA
- State
- Iowa
- County
- Buchanan
- Total
- 0.53 sq mi (1.37 km )
- Land
- 0.53 sq mi (1.37 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,132 ft (345 m)
- Density
- 319.4/sq mi (123.32/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-03835
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Aurora
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Buchanan County
- Population
- 169
- Area
- 1.484634
- Elevation
- 347
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Households
- 67
- Dialing code
- 319
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- postal code
- 50607
- P8168
- Ixobrychus
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 21844
- Commons category
- Aurora, Iowa
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Encyclopedic overview
Aurora is a city in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. The population was 169 in the 2020 census, a decline from 194 in 2000.
Aurora was founded in 1886 by the Chicago Great Western Railway, and incorporated in 1899. The town was laid out on land donated by a Bishop Warren and his wife Alice, and is named after Warren's birthplace of East Aurora, New York.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aurora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.