City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado, extending into Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties. Aurora is one of the principal cities of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metro Denver). The city recorded a population of 325,078 in the 2010 Census, and is the third most populous city in the state of Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the United States.
Denver and Aurora are the...
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City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado, extending into Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties. Aurora is one of the principal cities of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metro Denver). The city recorded a population of 325,078 in the 2010 Census, and is the third most populous city in the state of Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the United States.
Denver and Aurora are the principal cities of the Denver Metropolitan Area which in 2007 had an estimated population of 2,464,866 (the 22nd most populous MSA in the U.S.). However, Denver and Aurora combined make up less than half of the Metro Denver Area's population and Aurora has approximately half the population of Denver. The estimated population of the Metropolitan Denver was 2,998,878 in 2007(15th most populous CSA).
Aurora originated in the 1880s as the town of Fletcher, taking its name from Denver businessman Donald Fletcher who saw it as a real estate...
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