South
West Virginia
Preston

Aurora

Aurora is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , United States. The population was 200 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 201 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Preston County, West Virginia, USA
  • Also known as: “Aurora, West Virginia”, “Aurora, WV”, “Carmel”, “German Settlement”, “Mount Carmel”, “Old Town”, and “West Union”
  • Postal code: 26705

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carmel and Brookside.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , in the U.S. state of .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is located at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 24, 7.9 miles east-southeast of .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is situated 2 miles northwest of Aurora.

Aurora

Latitude
39.32427° or 39° 19′ 27″ north
Longitude
-79.5545° or 79° 33′ 16″ west
Population
201
Elevation
2,644 feet (806 metres)
Open location code
87F28CFW+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158577239
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4797587
Wiki­data ID
Q4406486
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Volapük—“Aurora” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Aurora”
  • Cebuano: “Aurora”
  • Chechen: “Орора”
  • French: “Aurora”
  • German: “Aurora”
  • Gilaki: “آرؤرا (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “آرؤرا”
  • Irish: “Aurora”
  • Italian: “Aurora”
  • Japanese: “オーロラ”
  • Ladin: “Aurora”
  • Persian: “اورورا، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “اورورا”
  • Polish: “Aurora”
  • Serbian: “Орора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aurora, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aurora”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آورورا، باتی ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Aurora”
  • Tatar: “Орора”
  • Ukrainian: “Орора”
  • Urdu: “ارورا، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “ارورا”
  • Volapük: “Aurora, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Aurora”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Aurora”. Photo: JaGa, CC BY-SA 4.0.