2021 Map of Aurora Center

About this map

Aurora Center serves as the focal point of this South Dakota landscape, situated in the southern half of the map at the junction of 266th St and 381st Ave. This area of Aurora County exhibits the traditional grid-based settlement pattern characteristic of the American Great Plains, where section lines dictate the placement of local thoroughfares like Co Rd 58 and 265th St. Genealogy and local history interest is concentrated around the Aurora Center Cem and the Quaker Cem, both situated near the central settlement. The northern reaches of the terrain are punctuated by localized water bodies, including the descriptively named Horse Shoe Lake and Pleasant Lake, which sit amidst a network of ephemeral wetlands and drainage ways such as E Fork Platte Cr.