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Urbana, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. It stands on Woodard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Urbana quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Urbana within Union County

On record in Urbana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

90 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Urbana between 1997 and 2019, burning about 857 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15959013
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined48 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Payne1.1 miles16
Sandy Bend2.8 miles16
Hillsboro3.2 miles16
Lawson3.2 miles16
Kinard4.4 miles18
Gardner5.0 miles16
New London6.0 miles16
Nick Springs6.6 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on UrbanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7900193The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 55863. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.