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.
Population over time
2 figuresGalena 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 653 | |
| 2020 | 924 | +271 (+42%) |
Then and now
1902 to 1995The 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.


Compare 1902 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1902 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Westerville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Galena quadrangle1:24000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 2,602 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | unnamed | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Flint. |
![]() | Dothidea Fr., 1818 | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke | 1896 | A. P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1850 | Kugel, B. (Burt) | near Selma, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | Ricke, A. S. | Carlisle, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Centronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1872 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Ophioglossum vulgatum L. | 1873 | Hussey, J. | |
![]() | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1874 | not recorded | Sugar Grove, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Branta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776) | 1874 | not recorded | Lake Erie, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834) | 1874 | Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard) | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1874 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Tympanuchus americanus (Reichenbach, 1852) | 1874 | not recorded | Monroeville, Ohio, USA |
All 2,602 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galena Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Vans Valley Road Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms nearby
14 since 1994The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused damaged to a home and 2 houses under construction. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $4,000 | Powerlines and a transformer were blown down. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $3,000 | Multiple trees were downed on Mill Run Drive. |
| September 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Galena | $3,000 | The 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $2,000 | A couple of trees were downed onto State Route 3. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down over the road. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Galena | - | State Route 3 at Lewis Center Road was closed due to flooding. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Galena | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Galena | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Galena | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galena | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Galena | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Creek | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Sunbury Meadows | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Heather Glen | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Sunbury | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hoover Woods | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hickory Woods | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Vinmar Farms | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cheshire Woods | 2.6 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 Q2213165 | 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 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.

























