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.
Then and now
1905 to 1984The 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.


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
Millard Fillmore HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
Roycroft Campus, Copper ShopNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2012
George and Gladys Scheidemantel Houselisted 1993- Bank of East Auroralisted 2021
- St. Matthias Episcopal Church Complexlisted 2019
- Yeomans Houselisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,236 | |
| 2020 | 5,998 | -238 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1905 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Depew quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS East Aurora quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS East Aurora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
137 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 81 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $20,000 | The media relayed reports of trees and wires down. A trailer was blown over. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $15,000 | Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on Maple Road in East Aurora. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $12,000 | Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | A tree fell on a house on Girard Avenue. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on Olean Road. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Maple and First Streets. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $8,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in East Aurora. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $8,000 | Reports of downed trees by thunderstorm winds were noted on social media. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $5,000 | Power pole snapped; trees and wires downed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $5,000 | Thunderstorms 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 2011 | Hail | East Aurora | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $3,000 | Trees and power lines reported down on Knox Road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $2,000 | Trees and wires were reported down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $1,000 | Large trees were downed. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Aurora | $1,000 | Large trees were downed. |
| July 2024 | Hail | East Aurora | - | Nickel to quarter sized hailstones reported in East Aurora. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billington Heights | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Blakeley | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Jamison Road | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Taylorshire | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| East Elma | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Porterville | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Colegrave | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Griffins Mills | 4.2 miles | 16 |
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 Aurora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1019210 | 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 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.








