View source for Eureka, Perry County, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri}}
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|official_name            = Eureka, Perry County, Missouri
|settlement_type          = [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]]
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|map_caption              = Location of Perry County, Missouri
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|subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = [[Missouri]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Missouri|County]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Perry County, Missouri|Perry]]
|subdivision_type3        = [[List of townships in Missouri|Township]]
|subdivision_name3        = [[Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri|Cinque Hommes]]
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|timezone                 = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]]
|utc_offset               = -6
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|utc_offset_DST           = -5
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|elevation_ft             = 640
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|postal_code              = 63775
|area_code                = [[Area code 573|573]]
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|blank1_info              = 736426<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|736426}}</ref>
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'''Eureka''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri|Cinque Hommes Township]] in [[Perry County, Missouri|Perry County]], [[Missouri]], United States.<ref name="shs.umsystem">State Historical Society of Missouri: Perry County http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331203235/http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html |date=2016-03-31 }}</ref> Eureka lies approximately eight miles east of Perryville, and about one mile east of Longtown.<ref>A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Perry County, Missouri http://thelibrary.org/lochist/moser/perrypl.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103234016/http://thelibrary.org/lochist/moser/perrypl.html |date=2013-11-03 }}</ref> Eureka was named after the nearby school.<ref name="shs.umsystem" />
== References ==
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{{Perry County, Missouri}}
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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Missouri]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri]]
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