Galveston, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46932. The Survey maps it on the Galveston quadrangle. 1,288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Galveston within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Galveston fell from 1,311 to 1,288 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	1,311
2020	1,288	-23 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,143 words on this township

History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1843, came the following: David McCalley, who settled on the present site of Galveston; Elisha Garrett, on the Joshua Garrett farm; William_ Stanley, on the Bickell farm ; Isaac Windom, on what is now the Lewis Wample farm; David Bell, on the farm belonging to Mr. Adams; a gentleman by the name of Thomas, on the Emrick farm; James Bell, on the farm owned by his son William; William Dale, on the Joseph Graves farm ; Daniel Fickle, on the Daggett farm ; Christian Howdyshell, on the farm belonging to Mr. Stauffer; William Murphy, on the Joseph Gray farm, and James Wind, on what is now the Absalom Boring farm.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Galveston: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Orr Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galveston in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2003	Flash Flood	Galveston	$1,250,000	Emergency management reported Deer Creek near Galveston was flooding with water rising rapidly. 40 to 50 homes were damaged with roads flooded throughout the county.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	$5,000	Three large trees were blown down, with one tree falling against a house and another onto a parked car. Damage is estimated at $5000.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	$5,000	Emergency management reported large trees down and power lines down in Galveston. Uprooted and fallen trees damaged a home and two cars.
March 2026	Hail	Galveston	$1,000	Photo from Emergency Management indicates quarter-size hail.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	-	Multiple trees were blown down. A semi truck was blown over.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	-	The public reported the Bob Evans billboard sign was ripped in half by strong winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	-	A trained spotter reported numerous four inch diameter tree limbs down onto local roads.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	-	Emergency management officials reported two homes had trees fall into them.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston	-	A trained spotter reported both a 100 foot and 60 foot tree were snapped at around the 20 foot level. Each tree ranged from 20 to 24 inches in diameter.
August 2001	Hail	Galveston	-	Reported by public.
May 1993	Hail	Galveston	-	Several large limbs were downed on U.S. Route 24 west of Logansport. Four vehicles were damaged, and the highway was blocked.
May 2002	Hail	Galveston	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Galveston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lincoln	2.7 miles	10
Walton	6.3 miles	12
Deacon	7.7 miles	11
Onward	8.0 miles	12
Young America	8.3 miles	9
Poundstone Corner	8.4 miles	11
Anoka	11.0 miles	11
Lewisburg	11.7 miles	12

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 Galveston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977773	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 452043. 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.