Évaux-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [evo le bɛ̃]; Occitan: Evahon) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.
A spa town founded by the Romans in the first century, who developed thermal baths and called the place “Ivaonum,” possibly after a deity, Ivaos.
It was the regional capital of the Combraille in the thirteenth century and was besieged during the Hundred Years War by the Routiers.
An area of lakes and streams, forestry, farming and associated light industry, consisting of a small town and several hamlets situated between the valleys of the rivers Cher and Tardes, some 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Montluçon, at the junction of the D19, D20, D996 and the D915 roads.
The commune is on the border with the department of Allier and is served by a TER railway link to Montluçon.