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Eureka is the county seat and largest city of Greenwood County, Kansas, located on the Fall River in the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie country.

The first settlement at Eureka was made in 1857, its first post office opened in August 1858, the town was laid out in 1867, and it was incorporated in 1870.

Eureka took its name from the Greek expression "Eureka," meaning "I have found it."

Eureka became the Greenwood County seat in 1866 and erected its first courthouse in 1871.

As of the 2020 census, Eureka had a population of 2,332 people living in 1,038 households, down from a peak of 4,055 residents in 1960.

An EF2 tornado struck Eureka on the night of July 7, 2016, damaging more than 143 structures including at least 50 homes, a nursing home and a grain elevator, though no one was injured.

Less than two years later, an EF3 tornado hit Eureka on June 26, 2018, damaging or destroying 175 structures and 78 homes and injuring eight people.

The historic Greenwood Hotel in Eureka served for decades as a cattle trading center, and the town also has a Carnegie library building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Eureka Downs was the city's horse racing facility, drawing visitors to pari-mutuel racing in the Flint Hills.

Eureka was once home to Utopia College, a two-year college founded by economist Roger Babson.