BlockUrbana, Kansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Chetopa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66720. It stands on Little Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Earlton quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Earlton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Urbana between 2004 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 623 |
| 9 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Neosho County | 234 |
| 8 March 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Neosho County | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Neosho County | 20 |
| 4 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 27 |
| 22 March 2015 | Smoking | 120 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150322 |
| 2 March 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Neosho County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Urbana: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neosho County Portable Crusher | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
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 Q17108538 | 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 475106. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.