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Located mostly in Arapahoe and Adams Counties, with a small section also extending into Douglas County, Aurora is the third largest city in the state of Colorado. This home rule municipality, covers an area of 154.19 square miles and is situated in the western central part of the state. Aurora has an estimated population of 361,000, with over 2.8 million in the surrounding metropolitan area.
Aurora is nicknamed 'Gateway to the Rockies' due to its key location near the Rocky Mountains and was settles in the 1880s. It was originally called Fletcher in honor of a Colorado entrepreneur named Donald Fletcher, but was renamed after Fletcher himself fled the town when the mines in the area dried up. Map
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