Urbana, Kansas

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Urbana, Kansas
CDP
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Urbana
Coordinates: 37°33′29″N95°23′58″W / 37.55806°N 95.39944°W / 37.55806; -95.39944 [1]
Country United States
State Kansas
County Neosho
Elevation
[1]
955 ft (291 m)
Population
 (2020) [2]
  Total30
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 620
FIPS code 20-72600 [1]
GNIS ID 475106 [1]

Urbana is a census-designated place (CDP) in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 30. [2]

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History

Urbana was platted in 1870. [3] It was located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. [4]

A post office was opened in Urbana in 1870, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957. [5]

From 1877 to 1878 it was the sight of the short-lived "Esperanza Community", which was described as "a colony of communists." [6] They bought a hotel [7] and ran a newspaper called The Star of Hope. [8]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2020 30
U.S. Decennial Census

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Urbana, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System , United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
  2. 1 2 "Profile of Urbana, Kansas (CDP) in 2020". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  3. Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. pp.  839.
  4. History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State. A. T. Andreas. 1883. p.  841.
  5. "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  6. Robert S. Fogarty (2003). All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914. Lexington Books. pp. 104–105. ISBN   978-0-7391-0520-7.
  7. W. W. Graves, ed., Annals of Osage Mission (St. Paul, Kansas: Graves Library, 1987), 243
  8. “To Correspondents and Visitors” Star of Hope, 1, No. 3 (March 1878) p. 4, cols. 2-3

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