Urbana, Kansas

Unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas

CDP in Kansas, United States

37°33′29″N 95°23′58″W / 37.55806°N 95.39944°W / 37.55806; -95.39944^[1]CountryUnited StatesStateKansasCountyNeoshoElevation

^[1]

955 ft (291 m)Population

(2020)^[2]

• Total30Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code620FIPS code20-72600 ^[1]GNIS ID475106 ^[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]

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
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	30		—
U.S. Decennial Census

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Urbana, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
^ ^a ^b "Profile of Urbana, Kansas (CDP) in 2020". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
^ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 839.
^ 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.
^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
^ 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.
^ W. W. Graves, ed., Annals of Osage Mission (St. Paul, Kansas: Graves Library, 1987), 243
^ “To Correspondents and Visitors” Star of Hope, 1, No. 3 (March 1878) p. 4, cols. 2-3