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Aurora, CO 80010
Aurora, Colorado
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Aurora is
Colorado's third-largest city. The
municipality is split between Arapahoe and
Adams County, with a small portion lying in
Douglas County. The city and its western
neighbor are the principal cities of the
Denver-Aurora metropolitan area. As of the
2000 Census, the city population was
276,900. The latest Census estimates place
the city's population at 297,235, making it
the 61st-largest in the United States. The
city will soon reach the milestone of
300,000 residents.
In 1891, Donald Fletcher founded a town on
the plains east of Denver and named it after
himself. The real estate tycoon ran out two
years later, leaving the new residents with
bond payments for non-existent water. The
town was renamed Aurora (Latin for dawn) in
1907, and remained a small community until
after World War II. Postwar suburban
development transformed the town into what
became the fastest growing city in the
United States during the late 1970s and
early 1980s.
Although Aurora has long been considered by
many only as one of Denver's larger suburbs,
its growing population in recent decades
(now over half the size of the City of
Denver) has led to efforts for co-equal
recognition with its larger neighbor. A
former mayor once expressed the somewhat
whimsical notion that eventually the area
would be called the "Aurora/Denver
Metropolitan Area." However, such efforts
are somewhat hampered by the lack of a
large, historically important central
business district in the city, which is
largely suburban in character.
World attention focused on Aurora for seven
weeks during the fall of 1955, as President
Dwight D. Eisenhower recovered from a heart
attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center.
The hospital is also the birthplace of 2004
Democratic presidential candidate John
Kerry. Decommissioned in 1999, the facility
is now under redevelopment as the campus of
the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center and Hospital, which are relocating
there from Denver, and the Colorado
Bioscience Park Aurora. These facilities
will employ a workforce of 32,000 at
build-out.
In 2004, Aurora was honored as the Sports
Illustrated magazine's 50th Anniversary "Sportstown"
for Colorado because of its exemplary
involvement in facilitating and enhancing
sports. Aurora's active populace is also
reflected in the variety of professional
athletes hailing from the city (see Notable
People from Aurora below). Aurora's first
professional sports franchise, the Aurora
Cavalry in the International Basketball
League, began play in 2006.
In 2005, Aurora again made headlines because
the city is planning to split from three
counties to create the City and County of
Aurora. The plan was originally created back
in 1996 and it was defeated by Aurora voters
while Broomfield successfully split from
four counties to create the second
city-county in 2001.
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