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Eureka, Nevada
Eureka, Nevada: county seat of Eureka County on Highway 50, founded after an 1864 silver-lead strike; 1880s boomtown with 16 smelters and 10,000 people, now a National Register historic district.
Eureka, Nunavut
Eureka is a Canadian High Arctic research and weather station on Slidre Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, established in 1947 as the first Joint Arctic Weather Station.
Ewhurst
Ewhurst, a village and parish in Waverley, Surrey, on the Weald edge near Cranleigh; name means yew wooded hill, first recorded 1179, church of St Peter and St Paul c.1140, Roman villa at Rapsley.
Eyam
Eyam ('eem') is a Derbyshire Peak District village famous for its 1665-1666 plague outbreak and quarantine led by rector William Mompesson; 257 of about 700 residents died, and the Victorian heroic narrative has been revised by modern research.
Èze
Èze (INSEE 06059) is an Alpes-Maritimes commune on the Côte d'Azur between Nice and Monaco, with a medieval hilltop village at 429 m, the Jardin Exotique, the Chemin de Nietzsche, and about 2,144 inhabitants (2023).
Fallbrook, California
Fallbrook, California: unincorporated San Diego County census-designated place, also called the Avocado Capital of the World. Founded 1869 by the Reche brothers from Fall Brook, Pennsylvania; 32,267 residents (2020); hosts the annual Avocado Festival.
Farsley
Farsley is a village between Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, recorded in the Domesday Book, once a wool-processing center, and the birthplace of missionary Samuel Marsden.
Fay
Fay is a former gold-mining camp and ghost town in Lincoln County, Nevada, named for Sarah Fay McCune, active from about 1900, centered on the Horseshoe Mine, with production ending between 1911 and 1915.
Feltwell
Feltwell, Norfolk: large fen-edge village and civil parish (5,376 ha, 65% fen) on the Cambridgeshire border, named from Old English, with Roman villas, a 4th-century bath house, and RAF Feltwell.
Filzbach
Filzbach is a village in canton Glarus, Switzerland, on the Kerenzerberg terrace above the Walensee, part of Glarus Nord since 2011. Known for its Augustan-era Roman watchtower and as a resort with the Zurich canton sport center.
Findhorn Foundation
Findhorn Foundation: Scottish spiritual community and charity founded in 1962 by Peter Caddy, Eileen Caddy, and Dorothy Maclean at Findhorn Bay; registered 1972, now the Findhorn Foundation SCIO at Park Ecovillage, known for its garden, ecovillage, and UN association.
Fishing village
A fishing village is a small community near water, sometimes with a linear form, where economies focus on fishing or handicrafts. These can range from 500 to 2,500 inhabitants.
Five Towns
The Five Towns is an informal name for eight villages and hamlets in southwestern Nassau County, Long Island: Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett-area communities, and Inwood, named for five LIRR Far Rockaway line stops.
Fleury
Fleury: name of several French communes and places (Aisne, Moselle, Essonne, Fleury-sur-Orne, Fleury-devant-Douaumont) and the abbey of Fleury, from Gallo-Roman Floriacus with the Celtic suffix -acum.
Fordlândia
Fordlândia: failed Ford Motor Company rubber plantation and company town on the Tapajós River, Pará, Brazil, founded 1927, abandoned after leaf blight, sold to Brazil in 1945, now a protected ghost town.
Former villages of Japan
Former villages of Japan are village municipalities dissolved as local governments, chiefly in the Meiji, Shōwa, and Heisei merger waves, falling from over 59,000 to under 200.
Fouillouse
Fouillouse is the name of several places in France: a village at about 1,900 m in the Ubaye valley of the Hautes-Alpes, a commune in the Loire near Saint-Étienne, and a commune in Lozère.
Frocester
Frocester (Frowecestre) is a small Gloucestershire village, 10 miles south of Gloucester, known for the Frocester Court Roman villa, occupied from the Bronze Age through the fifth century AD.
Frumusica
Frumușica is the name of two Moldovan villages, in the Florești and Leova districts, and of a Moldovan village in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, razed in 1946 for a military range.
Fudai, Iwate
Fudai (普代村, Fudai-mura) is a village in Shimohei District, northern Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on the Sanriku coast. Known for its 15.5 m floodgate that repelled the 2011 tsunami; population about 2,293 (2025), fisheries-based economy.
Fugging, Upper Austria
Fugging, formerly Fucking, is a village of about 100 people in Tarsdorf, Braunau am Inn district, Upper Austria. It renamed itself from Fucking to Fugging effective 1 January 2021 after tourist mockery and repeated theft of its village signs.
Furnace Creek, California
Furnace Creek, California: census-designated place in Inyo County within Death Valley National Park, also called Greenland Ranch. Site of the 134°F (56.7°C) 1913 world heat record, Harmony Borax Works, and the Timbisha Shoshone reservation; population 136 in 2020.
Gaganitsa
Gaganitsa (Гаганица) is a village in Montana Province, northwestern Bulgaria, with an ancient elliptical fortress near Bozhlichka peak and a late Roman coin hoard ending under Theodosius II (AD 402-450); the name also covers a local dam, lake, and geological section.
Gamaches-en-Vexin
Gamaches-en-Vexin, a commune in the Eure (Normandy, INSEE 27276), Vexin normand; 295 inhabitants in 2023; Gallo-Roman theater and villa traces, a 12th-century castle taken by Richard the Lionheart in 1195, and an 1891 Notre-Dame church.
Gamla Uppsala
Gamla Uppsala, also known as Old Uppsala, is a village and archaeological site just north of Uppsala, Sweden, famous for its three Royal Mounds and its role as a late Iron Age center.
Gammalsvenskby
Gammalsvenskby (Staroshvedske, Alt-Schwedendorf), a village in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, founded 1782 by deported Dagö (Hiiumaa) Swedes; 1929 mass emigration to Sweden; destroyed by Russian attacks since 2022.
Gangasagar (গঙ্গাসাগর)
Gangasagar (গঙ্গাসাগর), also Sagar Island, is a Hindu pilgrimage site in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, where the Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal; its January Makar Sankranti Mela at the Kapil Muni Ashram is India's second largest congregation after the Kumbh.
Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York: incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, founded 1869 by merchant Alexander Turney Stewart as a planned community on the Hempstead Plains; incorporated 1919; 2020 population 23,272.
Garden village
A garden village is a new planned settlement of 1,500 to 10,000 homes built to Garden City principles; the UK designated 14 in January 2017.
Gargždai
Gargždai (Gorzd, גאָרזד) is a town in western Lithuania, 17 km east of Klaipėda on the Minija River, center of Klaipėdos district municipality; first mentioned 1253, population 15,461 (2025), site of the first mass execution of Lithuanian Jews on 24 June 1941.