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Welcome to Eureka ...So far, we found very little information about Eureka. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Eureka to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Eureka - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Eureka, please Contact Us. While we don't have the exact location of Eureka , we believe that it would have been located within present day Cherokee County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Eureka, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1911. When the people of Eureka referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Eurekan<3> Time Zone: The area where Eureka was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Eureka once stood is in the (918) & (539)<4> area codes. Communities Also Named Eureka ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 68 communities that are also named Eureka - they are located in Alabama (2), Alaska (2), California (2), Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia (3), Illinois, Indiana (3), Iowa (3), Kansas (6), Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan (2), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (4), Montana (2), Nebraska, Nevada (2), New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina (2), South Dakota, Tennessee (4), Texas (5), Utah, Virginia, Washington (2), West Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Eureka. Adding Eureka to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Eureka in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Eureka was on a map titled Map of Oklahoma (from Rand McNally, 1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Eureka. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/ Footnotes ...
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