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Eufaula is a city in Barbour County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 13,908.
Eufaula is located at 31°53’21.732″ North, 85°9’13.586″ West (31.889370, -85.153774).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 73.5 square miles (190 km), of which, 59.4 square miles (154 km) of it is land and 14.1 square miles (37 km) of it (19.13%) is water. It sits on a reservoir called Walter F. George Lake, or just Lake Eufaula to locals.
Beginning no later than 1733, the site along the Chattahoochee River that is now modern-day Eufaula was occupied by three Creek tribes of the Muscogee Nation. The most dominant of the three, and most open to contact with whites, was named “the Eufaulas” (pronounced “you-fall-uhs.”) In 1823, families from Georgia, looking for fertile crop land, established a permanent white settlement on the high bluffs of the area and adopted the Creek village’s name.
General William Irwin, a hero of the War of 1812, was granted…