Urbana Kansas Map

About Urbana, Kansas

Urbana is a locality in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 6.8 people per km². Urbana is located at 37.5581°N, 95.3994°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66720.

Urbana occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of immense, shifting sky. It lies 39.4 miles west-northwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 285°T), and is situated 8.9 miles south-southeast of Chanute. Little Elk Creek carves a thin, riparian thread through the local topography, lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean toward the water as if listening to the low, constant pulse of the current. To the south, the solitary rise of Long Mound breaks the flatness, a landmark of earth and scrub that anchors the view against the immense, wheat-colored plains. During the late hours of the day, the light softens into a bruised amber, catching the tallgrass in a way that turns the entire landscape into a sea of swaying bronze.

Urbana persists as a place defined by the rhythm of the soil and the legacy of those who first broke the prairie sod. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest, with grain silos serving as the vertical markers of the community’s shared labor and prosperity. Though the pace of life favors the deliberate, residents often find their way to Santa Fe Park for the stillness of the open fields, or occasionally travel the seven miles to City Lake when the summer heat settles heavy over the plains. There is a weight of history in the limestone foundations of the older buildings, a reminder of a time when the wind dictated the fortunes of the settlers more than any machine. In Urbana, the quiet is not an absence of sound, but a presence of space, where the wind carries the scent of dry earth and the distant, metallic rattle of a passing freight train.

About This Urbana Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Urbana, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.558108, -95.399424. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Urbana includes the ZIP code (66720), telephone area code (913), county seat of Neosho County (Erie), and school district assignment (Erie-Galesburg Unified School District 101).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.