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Galena Park, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77547. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pasadena quadrangle. 10,740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Galena Park within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

Galena Park fell from 10,887 to 10,740 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.

YearPeople Change
201010,887
202010,740-147 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

18 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Galena Park between 2019 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041, E042
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023, E029
17 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE052, E061
14 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
11 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Galena Park: 22 producers, 3 plants, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
South Houston Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U S Gypsum Calcining PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Deepwater Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galena Park in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Flash FloodGalena Park$100,000Flooding was reported in southeastern Harris County from the Pasadena and Deer Park areas down into El Lago and Seabrook. 60 to 80 apartments near the Shaver Street and East Edgebrook Drive intersection were flooded with about one to two inches of water. There was high water and stranded vehicles at Spencer Highway and Beltway 8. Web cameras showed flood water inundation on State Highway 225 near Richey Street. Local media were showing pictures of flooded roads in the El Lago and Seabrook areas.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGalena Park$10,000Power lines down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGalena Park$10,000Power lines down.
June 2006LightningGalena Park$5,000Lightning struck the rim of an external floating roof storage tank resulting in a fire.
May 2007HailGalena Park-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudGalena Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Clinton Park1.5 miles16
Manchester2.0 miles16
Clinton View2.1 miles16
Jacinto City2.3 miles14
Woodland Acres2.4 miles14
Greens Bayou2.6 miles14
Market at Hunting Bayou2.6 miles14
Pasadena Gardens2.8 miles13

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981431The 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 1377177. 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.

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.