a French mercenary founded Urkes in 1635 and the British later took it over. To an extent, this mirrors the history of many American cities that changed hands over the course of time. During the American Revolutionary War, Urkes City was the site of a major battle and rumors held it to be the site of various occult rites, Urkes Buildings have a gothic Architecture.

Urkes has a wide variety of sports teams; like their baseball teams, the Urkes Knights and the Urkes Griffins, their basketball team, the Urkes Guardsmen, their football team the Urkes Wildcats and their ice hockey team, the Urkes Blades. The Urkes Knights baseball team colors are black and gold.
the travel time by train was six hours, while the same trip via air shuttle between Urkes & Cincinnati was only 40 minutes.
Urkes is a fictional city in ohio that replaces Dayton in the Travisa Life Universe.