BlockUrbana, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eckelson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58481. The Survey maps it on the Spiritwood quadrangle. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1897 USGS Eckelson quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Spiritwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Urbana between 1999 and 2008, burning about 1,635 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | MCLAIN |
| 17 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COLIN CONLEY |
| 16 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 18 |
| 4 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | KNUDTSON |
| 7 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | KNUDTSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urbana in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF3) | Urbana | - | This tornado initially developed in far eastern Stutsman County about 2 miles east-southeast of Spiritwood, and immediately tracked northeast into Barnes County. As it continued northeast it missed the community of Urbana in Barnes County to the northwest. As it continued this northeast track it caused EF-3 damage|to a metal building structure and homestead. Additional EF-2 damage occurred at that home, including the loss of an upper floor and garage. Several nearby Morton buildings were also destroyed next to the MBS. At least 3 vehicles and a trailer were lofted by the tornado from that home, along with the engine block of a dump truck. The vehicle remnants were thrown or deposited between 0.2 and 0.25 miles along an arc from the south to southeast. One vehicle was a 1980 Chevy pickup truck that had originally been located between a backhoe and dump truck by the house. The vehicles cannot currently be used as DI's under the current EF scale, however they could be reviewed in future expansions of the EF scale. The tornado continued on a north to northeast track and 1 mile from the first home caused EF-3 damage to another home along with EF-3 damage to nearby trees. The tornado then turned northwest causing visible ground scouring as it eventually turned west back into Stutsman county as it weakened and eventually dissipated in eastern Stutsman County. High resolution Worldview 2 satellite imagery reveals trackable ground scouring showing this turning track up to around 1.25 miles west of the Barnes County and Stutsman County border. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Urbana | - | Dime to quarter-sized hail was reported at the Kierly Waterfowl Production Area. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Urbana | - | Fields were flooded and water covered several farm access roads in Mansfield township. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Urbana | - | The ground was white with hail. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Urbana | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Urbana | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eckelson | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Sanborn | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Leal | 12.8 miles | 8 | |
| Nobart (historical) | 14.0 miles | 10 | |
| Odell (historical) | 14.5 miles | 8 | |
| Rogers | 14.8 miles | 8 | |
| Wimbledon | 16.4 miles | 9 | |
| Berea | 16.8 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q7900198 | 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 1033922. 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.
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.