Do you know of Urbana ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Urbana. 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 Urbana.

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

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 Urbana ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Urbana.

There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Urbana.

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

Communities Located In Missouri ...
- Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Urbana [Dallas County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Urbana [Union County].
- Illinois
  - Champaign County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Urbana [Champaign County].
- Indiana
  - Wabash County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Urbana [Wabash County].
- Iowa
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Urbana [Benton County].
- Kansas
  - Allen County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Urbana [Allen County].
  - Nemaha County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Urbana [Nemaha County].
  - Neosho County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Urbana [Neosho County].
  - Shawnee County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Urbana [Shawnee County].
- Maryland
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Urbana [Frederick County].
- Nebraska
  - Phelps County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Urbana [Phelps County].
- New York
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Urbana [Steuben County].
- North Dakota
  - Barnes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Urbana [Barnes County].
- Ohio
  - Champaign County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Urbana [Champaign County].
- Texas
  - San Jacinto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Urbana [San Jacinto County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Urbana ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Henry 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 Henry County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Urbana could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.