Eureka is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Pleasants County,

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, United States. Eureka is located on the banks of the

Ohio River The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ...

and

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, west-southwest of Belmont. Eureka had a

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, which closed on January 16, 1993. The community was named

Eureka Eureka often refers to: * Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes * Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem Eureka or Ureka may also refer to: History * Eureka Rebellion, an 1854 g ...

after oil was discovered in the area.

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Unincorporated communities in Pleasants County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia West Virginia populated places on the Ohio River {{PleasantsCountyWV-geo-stub