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Galestown

Galestown is a town in , , United States. The population was 138 at the 2010 census.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 98 residents
  • Description: town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Gales Town”, “Galestown, Maryland”, and “Galestown, MD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Galestown Cemetery and Dickerson Potato House.

Cemetery
is a cemetery located in Galestown, Maryland. One person of note interred there is Homer Smoot, a one-time professional baseball player.

Building
Photo: Linda Roy Walls, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic potato house located near , . It one of the last surviving examples of its building type. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Galestown.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sharptown and Woodland.

Village
is a town in , , United States. The population was 651 at the 2010 census. It is included in the . is situated 1½ miles south of Galestown.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is located on the , 3.8 miles southwest of . is situated 4 miles northeast of Galestown.

Hamlet
EL-də-RAY-doh is a town in , , United States. The population was 45 at the 2020 census, making it the second smallest town in Maryland. is situated 4 miles west of Galestown.

Galestown

Latitude
38.56623° or 38° 33′ 58″ north
Longitude
-75.71493° or 75° 42′ 54″ west
Population
98
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
Open location code
87C6H78P+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158429772
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4355887
Wiki­data ID
Q753551
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Satellite Map

Discover Galestown from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Galestown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غيلستون”
  • Basque: “Galestown”
  • Catalan: “Galestown”
  • Cebuano: “Galestown”
  • Chechen: “Гейлстаун (Мэриленд)”
  • Chechen: “Гейлстаун”
  • Chinese: “Galestown”
  • Chinese: “蓋爾斯敦 (馬里蘭州)”
  • Chinese: “蓋爾斯敦”
  • Dutch: “Galestown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيلستون”
  • French: “Galestown”
  • German: “Galestown”
  • Gilaki: “گیلز‌تاؤن (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “گیلز‌تاؤن”
  • Hungarian: “Galestown”
  • Italian: “Galestown”
  • Kazakh: “Galestawn”
  • Kazakh: “Галестаун”
  • Kazakh: “گالەستاۋن”
  • Kirghiz: “Галестаун”
  • Ladin: “Galestown”
  • Mazanderani: “گالستوون (مریلند)”
  • Mazanderani: “گالستوون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Galestown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galestown”
  • Norwegian: “Galestown”
  • Persian: “گالستوون، مریلند”
  • Persian: “گالستوون”
  • Polish: “Galestown”
  • Portuguese: “Galestown”
  • Serbian: “Гејлстаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galestown, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galestown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قئیلستوون، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Galestown”
  • Tatar: “Гейлстаун (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Гейлстаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Гейлстаун”
  • Uzbek: “Galestown”
  • Uzbek: “Галестоwн”
  • Volapük: “Galestown”
  • Welsh: “Galestown, Maryland”
  • Welsh: “Galestown”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Hoagland Subdivision and White River Estates.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Galestown Methodist Church Old Cemetery and Galestown United Methodist Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Galestown”. Photo: Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0.