Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Urbandale came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Urbandale in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Urbandale. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Urbandale data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for Iowa (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found Urbandale in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Urbandale for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Urbandale. See our Misc Page for Urbandale for more information.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Urbandale: www.urbandale.org/

The official website for Polk County: www.co.polk.ia.us/

The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/