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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.

North Aurora within Kane County

Population over time

2 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
201016,760
202018,261+1,501 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2013

Regional 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-294

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Feltes Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fox Valley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Aurora QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hendrickson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverbank Stone and Lime Quarry No1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverbank Stone and Lime Quarry No2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

17 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-Fascia was partially torn off of a house in northwest Aurora.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A large tree limb was blown down blocking a roadway.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A tree was down and blocking Exposition Ave in North Aurora.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-An NWS employee reported a sizeable tree branch down, easily over one inch in diameter.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth 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 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A tree was blown down across N Randall Rd north of W Indian Trail.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A webcam caught a large tree that was blown over along the Fox River.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A large tree was snapped.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-A large tree was blown down in a backyard in North Aurora.
May 2014HailNorth Aurora-Numerous reports of hail penny to golf ball size came in from near Aurora.
May 2014HailNorth Aurora-Numerous reports of hail between 1.00 inches and 1.75 inches came in from Aurora.
August 2010FloodNorth Aurora-Up to four inches of standing water was reported on roads south of Interstate 88 in Aurora.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNorth Aurora-An eight inch diameter tree was broken at its base.
April 2023HailNorth Aurora-no account filed
May 2019HailNorth Aurora-no account filed
August 2018HailNorth Aurora-no account filed
August 2018HailNorth Aurora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Randall Hills1.0 miles15
Exposition View1.3 miles15
Mooseheart1.3 miles15
Heritage West1.8 miles15
Marywood2.1 miles15
Heaton Park2.5 miles15
Tanglewood2.5 miles15
Batavia3.1 miles15

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 AuroraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668907The 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.