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East Galena, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Galena City. It lies in ZIP code area 66739. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Baxter Springs quadrangle.

East Galena within Cherokee County

On record in East 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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of East Galena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service177
2 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service148
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177462-07341-08172018-1253
12 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service156
6 July 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service138
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service137
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179008-07341-07242019-1600
21 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service188

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 458 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 458 workings within 5 miles of East Galena: 458 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belleville Strip PitZincPast Producer1900
UnknownZincPast Producer1890, 1916
W. C. MineZincPast Producer1926, 1942
A. W. C. # 5 MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Alice of Old Vincennes MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Banty Hen MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Barnett & Walker MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Beacon Hill MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Belleville MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Bendrum,Corbus and OthersLead, ZincPast Producer1850, 1885

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Galena0.6 miles18
South Galena0.8 miles18
Empire City1.3 miles18
Riverton4.0 miles18
Lowell4.2 miles18
Quakervale (historical)5.0 miles18
Badger5.9 miles19
Baxter Springs6.6 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122598744The 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 483099. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.