Urbana is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
As of the
2020 census, the population was 30.
History
Urbana was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1870. It was located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
A post office was opened in Urbana in 1870, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.
From 1877 to 1878 it was the sight of the short-lived "Esperanza Community", which was described as "a colony of communists."
They bought a hotel and ran a newspaper called ''The Star of Hope.''
[“To Correspondents and Visitors” Star of Hope, 1, No. 3 (March 1878) p. 4, cols. 2-3]
Demographics
References
Further reading
External links
* Neosho County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Census-designated places in Neosho County, Kansas
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