Aurora is a city[4] in Wise County, Texas, United States.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km2), all land.

[6] [8] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,390 people, 420 households, and 356 families residing in the city.

The Town of Aurora is served by the Northwest Independent School District.

[10] Although the town has embraced the legend to a point (the city's website mentions the legend),[11] the cemetery association has refused all requests to exhume the alien's purported gravesite.