Urbana, Kansas

Urbana is an unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, in the United States.[1]

History

Urbana was platted in 1870.[2] It was located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.[3]

A post office was opened in Urbana in 1870, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.[4]

From 1877 to 1878 it was the sight of the short-lived "Esperanza Community", which was described as "a colony of communists."[5] They bought a hotel[6] and ran a newspaper called The Star of Hope.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Neosho County". Blue Skyways. Kansas State Library. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. p. 839.
  3. ↑ History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State. A. T. Andreas. 1883. p. 841.
  4. ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Robert S. Fogarty (2003). All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914. Lexington Books. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-7391-0520-7.
  6. ↑ W. W. Graves, ed., Annals of Osage Mission (St. Paul, Kansas: Graves Library, 1987), 243
  7. ↑ “To Correspondents and Visitors” Star of Hope, 1, No. 3 (March 1878) p. 4, cols. 2-3

Coordinates: 37°33′29″N 95°23′58″W / 37.55806°N 95.39944°W / 37.55806; -95.39944


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