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Eva is an incorporated town in southeastern Morgan County, in north-central Alabama, whose southern edge touches the Cullman County line.

The town began as a settlement called Cowhead in 1820, just a year after Alabama became a state.

Local lore says the town took the name Eva in October 1883, when physician Dr. Lewis Keller suggested naming it for Eva Brandon, a baby girl he had just delivered, because a new name was needed to establish a post office; the name change became official in 1887.

An earlier post office opened at Cowhead in 1883 under William J. Rook but closed after only a month.

Eva did not incorporate as a town until 1963.

As of the 2020 census, Eva had a population of 589, up from 519 in 2010, continuing steady growth from just 146 residents in 1970.

The 2000 census counted 491 residents in 194 households in the town.

Education has long been a point of pride in Eva: residents donated land and money to build a four-room schoolhouse in 1918 and a stone gymnasium in 1938, and the community's accredited high school graduated its first class, of three students, in 1930.

Eva High School was consolidated into Albert P. Brewer High School in 1972, and today Eva School serves kindergarten through eighth grade in the Morgan County school system.

The town sits just north of the Tennessee Valley Divide at an elevation of about 1,100 feet, so its streams drain both toward the Tennessee River and south toward the Black Warrior River watershed.