BlockGalena, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47124. It stands on Middle Fork Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. 1,726 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
On record in Galena
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Jersey Park Farmlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresGalena fell from 1,818 to 1,726 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,818 | |
| 2020 | 1,726 | -92 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1939 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Galena: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jorris Sand Pit | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galena in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $10,000 | The Floyd County emergency manager reported numerous trees down off High Street. One tree fell on a house and damaged a front porch. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | - | Trees were reported down in Floyd County. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | - | Trees were blown down. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | - | Numerous trees were downed by a thunderstorm microburst. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Galena | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navilleton | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Greenville | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Scottsville | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Floyds Knobs | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Saint Marys | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Georgetown | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Duncan | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Edwardsville | 5.0 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Galena | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3322315 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434921. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.