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About Aurora, SD

Aurora is a farming town of 1,400 people in southeastern South Dakota, sitting 20 miles north of Brookings on Highway 14. Most visitors drive up from Sioux Falls via I-29 and Highway 14, a 45-minute trip through corn and soybean country. The town serves as a rest stop on the cross-state Highway 14 route to Pierre. Aurora's restored 1913 Carnegie library remains one of South Dakota's few still-operating Carnegie libraries.

Where is Aurora, SD on the map?

Aurora, SD is in United States, at 44.282, -96.687 - about 9 km south-west of Bushnell, SD.

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The closest airport to Aurora, SD is Sioux Falls Regional Airport, 88 km (about 1 h by car).

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