Eureka
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- Names
Eureka
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Humboldt Bay; site of Fort Humboldt & scene of Amerindian uprisings 1853-1865; economy based on tourism from nearby redwood forests & dairying; site of College of the Redwoods (1965); Humboldt State University (1913) is in nearby Arcata.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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