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'''Eleanor''' is a town in [[Putnam County, West Virginia|Putnam County]], [[West Virginia]], [[United States]], along the [[Kanawha River]].<ref>{{cite book| title= West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1997 |publisher= [[DeLorme]] |location=Yarmouth, Me. |isbn= 0-89933-246-3 |pages= 42}}</ref> Its population was 1,518 at the 2010 census.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder2.census.gov| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Eleanor town, West Virginia| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=November 28, 2011}}</ref> The town was established as a [[New Deal]] project in the 1930s and named for [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=252;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=224}}</ref> Like other [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] towns around the nation (such as [[Greenbelt, Maryland|Greenbelt]], [[Greenhills, Ohio|Greenhills]], [[Greendale, Wisconsin|Greendale]], [[Hanford, Washington|Hanford]], or [[Norris, Tennessee|Norris]]). <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/us/25eleanor.html?scp=1&sq=Eleanor&st=cse|title=From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures|last=Barry|first=Dan|publisher=The New York Times|date=December 24, 2009|accessdate=November 28, 2011}}</ref>
 
Eleanor is a part of the [[Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area]] (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702. New definitions from February 28, 2013 placed the population at 363,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/bulletins/2013/b13-01.pdf|title=Population statistics|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319014422/http://m.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/bulletins/2013/b13-01.pdf|archivedate=2013-03-19|df=}}</ref>
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