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Galena, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Berkshire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43021. It stands on Little Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Galena quadrangle. 924 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Galena within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Galena grew from 653 to 924 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. 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.

YearPeople Change
2010653
2020924+271 (+42%)

Then and now

1902 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Galena, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Galena, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,602 shown

Museums hold 2,602 specimens collected within 10 miles of Galena between 1850 and 1975: 2,454 Animalia, 79 Fungi, 67 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tympanuchus americanus, not of this specimenTympanuchus americanus (Reichenbach, 1852)1874not recordedMonroeville, Ohio, USA

All 2,602 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Galena: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Galena PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Vans Valley Road PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

14 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Galena in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2000Thunderstorm WindGalena$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused damaged to a home and 2 houses under construction.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGalena$4,000Powerlines and a transformer were blown down.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindGalena$3,000Multiple trees were downed on Mill Run Drive.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Galena$3,000The tornado touched down and moved briefly along Big Walnut Road near the Hoover Reservoir. Trees were damaged along the path due to the tornado. In addition, a few shingles were torn off of a house. Based on the damage, wind speeds were estimated around 75 miles per hour.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGalena$3,000A few trees were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGalena$2,000A couple of trees were downed onto State Route 3.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGalena$1,000A tree was knocked down over the road.
May 2020FloodGalena-State Route 3 at Lewis Center Road was closed due to flooding.
March 2012HailGalena-no account filed
March 2012HailGalena-no account filed
March 2012HailGalena-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGalena-no account filed
April 2001HailGalena-no account filed
June 1994HailGalena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Walnut Creek0.7 miles13
Sunbury Meadows1.4 miles14
Heather Glen2.0 miles14
Sunbury2.2 miles13
Hoover Woods2.3 miles13
Hickory Woods2.4 miles14
Vinmar Farms2.4 miles14
Cheshire Woods2.6 miles14

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 GalenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2213165The 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 1064698. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.