Eureka

Eureka

See also: eureka and eurêka

English

Proper noun

Eureka

1. A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
2. A small suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
3. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. A small research base in Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
5. A settlement in Waikato district, New Zealand.
6. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A city, the county seat of Humboldt County, in northern California.
      • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 90:

        Before dawn this morning, five of us drove into Eureka.

   2. A ghost town in Nevada County, California.
   3. A miningghost town in San Juan County, Colorado.
   4. A city, the county seat of Woodford County, Illinois.
   5. An unincorporatedcommunity in Lawrence County, Indiana, also known as Geiberson.
   6. An unincorporatedcommunity in Luce Township, Spencer County, Indiana.
   7. A city, the county seat of Greenwood County, Kansas.
   8. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
   9. An unincorporatedcommunity in Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri.
   10. A town in Lincoln County, Montana.
   11. An unincorporated town and census-designated place, the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada.
   12. A town in Wayne County, North Carolina.
   13. An unincorporatedcommunity in Warrington Township, Bucks County and Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   14. An unincorporatedcommunity in Aiken County, South Carolina.
   15. A city in McPherson County, South Dakota.
   16. A ghost town in Crockett County, Texas.
   17. A ghost town in Franklin County, Texas.
   18. A tiny city in Navarro County, Texas.
   19. A small city in Juab County, Utah.
   20. An unincorporatedcommunity in Walla Walla County, Washington.
   21. An unincorporatedcommunity in Pleasants County, West Virginia.
   22. A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
   23. An unincorporated CDP in the town of Rushford, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
   24. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Eureka Township.
7. A given name, like for the protagonists of Eureka's Castle or Eureka Seven.

See also

• Eureka County
• Eureka Springs