Do you know of Urban ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Urban. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Urban.

Our sources for Urban (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Urban other than they indicate that Urban would be found somewhere in Sanilac County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1906.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Urban ...

We found three communities that share the name Urban.

Within Michigan, the name Urban is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Clay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Urban [Clay County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Northumberland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Urban [Northumberland County].
  • Washington
    • Skagit County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Urban [Skagit County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Urban ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Urban:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Urban - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Sanilac County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Sanilac County.