Aurora, Ohio

Aurora grew from 15,548 to 17,239 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. 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.

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

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.

• 1906 USGS Chagrin Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Chagrin Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Chagrin Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Museums hold 465 specimens collected within 10 miles of Aurora between 1893 and 1975: 415 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Bruyne P de and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Equisetum palustre L.	1918	Hopkins, L.S.	Kent. In sticky mud in ditch along W. & L.E.R.R. two miles north of Kent.
	Geaster P.Micheli ex Fr.	1941	Walters, M. B.	25 miles southeast of Cleveland, Ohio
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1893	Woolman	Cuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio
	Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Celithemis fasciata Kirby, 1889	1900	R. Osborn	Kent, Stewart Lake
	Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854	1900	R. Osborn	Kent, Stewart Lake

All 465 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Aurora: 6 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Portage County

The National Weather Service names Aurora in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Portage County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064359. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.