North Aurora, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Aurora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60542. It stands on North Aurora Island. The Survey maps it on the Aurora North quadrangle. 18,261 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Aurora grew from 16,760 to 18,261 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16,760 | |
| 2020 | 18,261 | +1,501 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1932 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Aurora North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of North Aurora in 2013, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2013-294 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of North Aurora: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feltes Pit No. 6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fox Valley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Aurora Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hendrickson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Riverbank Stone and Lime Quarry No1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Riverbank Stone and Lime Quarry No2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Aurora in 17 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | Fascia was partially torn off of a house in northwest Aurora. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A large tree limb was blown down blocking a roadway. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A tree was down and blocking Exposition Ave in North Aurora. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | An NWS employee reported a sizeable tree branch down, easily over one inch in diameter. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A section of metal roofing panels was torn off of the Huntoon Stables on the east side of Highland Park in North Aurora. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A tree was blown down across N Randall Rd north of W Indian Trail. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A webcam caught a large tree that was blown over along the Fox River. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A large tree was snapped. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | A large tree was blown down in a backyard in North Aurora. |
| May 2014 | Hail | North Aurora | - | Numerous reports of hail penny to golf ball size came in from near Aurora. |
| May 2014 | Hail | North Aurora | - | Numerous reports of hail between 1.00 inches and 1.75 inches came in from Aurora. |
| August 2010 | Flood | North Aurora | - | Up to four inches of standing water was reported on roads south of Interstate 88 in Aurora. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Aurora | - | An eight inch diameter tree was broken at its base. |
| April 2023 | Hail | North Aurora | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | North Aurora | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | North Aurora | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | North Aurora | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Randall Hills | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Exposition View | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Mooseheart | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Heritage West | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Marywood | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Heaton Park | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Tanglewood | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Batavia | 3.1 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on North Aurora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668907 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 414559. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.








