Do you know of Urania ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Urania. 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 Urania.
Our sources for Urania (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 Urania other than they indicate that Urania would be found somewhere in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1914.
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 Urania ...
We found two communities that share the name Urania.
Within Michigan, the name Urania is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Urania ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Urania:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
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Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Urania - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Urania.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/81480 (Place Name: Urania)
County: Washtenaw (FIPS State/County: 26/161)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Urania) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Washtenaw 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 Washtenaw County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |