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Aurora
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city in Portage County, Ohio, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- County
- Portage
- Incorporated
- 1929 (Village)
- Founded by
- Ebenezer Sheldon
- Total
- 24.06 sq mi (62.31 km )
- Land
- 22.92 sq mi (59.35 km )
- Water
- 1.15 sq mi (2.97 km )
- Elevation
- 1,135 ft (346 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 17,717
- Density
- 752.3/sq mi (290.48/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 39-03086
- Website
- https://www.auroraoh.com/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Aurora is a city in northwestern Portage County, Ohio, United States. A suburb in between Akron and Cleveland, the population was 17,239 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Akron metropolitan area.
Some say Aurora was the name of the daughter of Major Amos Spafford, while others believe the village was named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn. The city is co-extensive with, and formed from, the former township of Aurora, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve. Aurora was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aurora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.