Aurora is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 459 at the 2020 census.
Town hall
Most of Aurora is fairly flat with heavy soil, like this farm west of Gilman.
In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System, a section is an area nominally one square mile, containing 640 acres, with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.
Aurora, Taylor County, Wisconsin
…U.S. government surveyed a six-mile (10 km) square which approximates the current boundaries of Aurora. In December 1854, another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring them with a chain and a compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general…
Perfectly square 160-acre quarter sections of farmland cover central Indiana.