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East Aurora, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Aurora town. It lies in ZIP code area 14052. It stands on Tannery Brook. The Survey maps it on the East Aurora quadrangle. 5,998 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

East Aurora within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Aurora, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Aurora, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

On record in East Aurora

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

East Aurora fell from 6,236 to 5,998 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
20106,236
20205,998-238 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

137 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of East Aurora between 2003 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 18 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural17
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Aurora in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$20,000The media relayed reports of trees and wires down. A trailer was blown over.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$15,000Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on Maple Road in East Aurora.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$12,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000A tree fell on a house on Girard Avenue.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on Olean Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Maple and First Streets.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$10,000no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in East Aurora.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$8,000Reports of downed trees by thunderstorm winds were noted on social media.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$5,000Power pole snapped; trees and wires downed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$5,000Thunderstorms which moved onshore from Lake Erie produced damaging winds and spawned a weak tornado. The tornado mainly uprooted trees, one of which fell onto a house.
July 2011HailEast Aurora$5,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$3,000Trees and power lines reported down on Knox Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$1,000Large trees were downed.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Aurora$1,000Large trees were downed.
July 2024HailEast Aurora-Nickel to quarter sized hailstones reported in East Aurora.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Billington Heights1.3 miles21
Blakeley2.4 miles15
Jamison Road2.6 miles19
Taylorshire2.7 miles16
East Elma2.8 miles19
Porterville3.5 miles19
Colegrave3.8 miles15
Griffins Mills4.2 miles16

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 East AuroraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019210The 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 948967. 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.

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.