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Aurora is a city on the eastern Mesabi Iron Range in St. Louis County, Minnesota, surrounded by the mines and forests of the Iron Range.

The village of Aurora was incorporated on November 25, 1903, after a census of the mining settlement that September counted just 174 residents.

Aurora's name comes from the Latin word for 'morning' or dawn.

Aurora had 1,678 residents at the 2020 census, living in 763 households.

The town was moved from its original location to improve its railroad facilities as iron mines opened around it.

The Meadow Mine, explored in 1898, was the first mine in Aurora's vicinity, and the district's other historic mines included the St. James, Stephens, Fowler, and Mohawk.

Aurora's official motto, adopted in 1997, is 'Minnesota's Star of the North.'

Aurora is the home base of the Northern Lights Music Festival, one of Minnesota's largest summer festivals, presenting opera, chamber music, and symphonic concerts across the Iron Range each July.

Aurora sits on the edge of the Superior National Forest, just two miles from Giants Ridge Golf and Ski Resort, with ATV and snowmobile trails extending toward Lake Superior.

Aurora students attend Mesabi East Schools, whose campus stands in Aurora at 601 North 1st Street West and whose teams are the Giants.