Urbana, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paw Paw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46990. The Survey maps it on the North Manchester South quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Urbana within Wabash 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

Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemeterylisted 2015

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS North Manchester South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urbana in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	$20,000	Five utility poles fell across SR 13, blocking traffic for up to two hours as power companies worked to shut off power to live electrical wires. The poles had to be replaced before power could be restored.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	Several trees and power lines down with some falling across roadways. Power lines down caused scattered power outages.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	Several trees down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	A large tree was blown down along State Road 13, near Urbana.
August 2012	Hail	Urbana	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Urbana	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Urbana	-	no account filed
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Urbana	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Speicherville	3.0 miles	13
Bolivar	4.6 miles	11
Ijamsville	4.7 miles	11
Servia	4.9 miles	11
Newton	5.0 miles	11
Lagro	5.3 miles	14
Laketon	5.7 miles	11
Sunnymede	6.7 miles	13

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 Urbana	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7900194	The 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 445177. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.