Galena Park
Galena Park is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 10,740 at the 2020 census. The population is predominantly Hispanic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,200 residents
- Description: city in Harris County, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Galena Park, Texas” and “Galena Park, TX”
- Postal code: 77547
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galena Park High School and Vince’s Bridge.
Galena Park High School
School
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Galena Park High School is a secondary school located in Galena Park, Texas, United States and is one of three secondary schools in the Galena Park Independent School District.
Vince’s Bridge
Memorial
Photo: Jim Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vince's Bridge was a wooden bridge constructed by Allen Vince over Vince Bayou near Houston, Texas. Its destruction by the Texan Army Rangering Company played a critical role during the April 1836 Battle of San Jacinto in the decisive defeat of the Mexican Army, which effectively ended the Texas Revolution.
Houston Refining
Photo: Rifleman 82, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Operating as Houston Refining, LP, LyondellBasell's Houston refinery is a 268,000-barrel-per-day along the Houston Ship Channel. This refinery has been in operation since 1918, and it currently produces gasoline, lubricant base stock, propylene, and other associated materials.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jacinto City and North Shore.
Jacinto City
Village
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Jacinto City is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, east of the intersection of Interstate 10 and the East Loop of Interstate 610. Jacinto City is part of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and is bordered by the cities of Houston and Galena Park. Jacinto City is situated 2½ miles north of Galena Park.
North Shore
Suburb
North Shore is a community in east side of Harris County, Texas with a small portion inside the city of Houston, Texas. The area includes subdivisions such as Songwood, Holiday Forest, Wood Bayou, Cimarron, Home Owned Estates, Woodland Acres, Hidden Forest… North Shore is situated 3 miles north of Galena Park.
Pasadena
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Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Harris County. It is part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 151,950, making it the 23rd most populous city in Texas and the second most populous in Harris County, after Houston.
Galena Park
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
29.73356° or 29° 44′ 1″ northLongitude
-95.23021° or 95° 13′ 49″ westPopulation
10,200Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
US GPKOpen location code
76X6PQM9+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 151556974OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Galena Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غالينا بارك”
- Basque: “Galena Park”
- Cebuano: “Galena Park”
- Chechen: “Галина-Парк”
- Chinese: “Galena Park”
- Chinese: “德克萨斯加纳利帕克”
- Chinese: “德克薩斯迦納利帕克”
- Croatian: “Galena Park”
- Czech: “Galena Park”
- Danish: “Galena Park”
- Dutch: “Galena Park”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جالينا بارك”
- French: “Galena Park”
- German: “Galena Park”
- Gilaki: “گلینا پارک”
- Haitian: “Galena Park, Texas”
- Haitian: “Galena Park”
- Hungarian: “Galena Park”
- Irish: “Galena Park”
- Italian: “Galena Park”
- Korean: “걸리나 파크”
- Korean: “걸리나파크”
- Ladin: “Galena Park”
- Malagasy: “Galena Park, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Galena Park”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Galena Park”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galena Park”
- Norwegian: “Galena Park”
- Persian: “گلینا پارک، تگزاس”
- Persian: “گلینا پارک”
- Polish: “Galena Park”
- Portuguese: “Galena Park”
- Serbian: “Галина Парк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galena Park, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galena Park”
- Slovak: “Galena Park”
- South Azerbaijani: “قئیلنا پارک، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Galena Park”
- Tatar: “Галина-Парк”
- Turkish: “Galena Park, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Galena Park”
- Ukrainian: “Галіна-Парк”
- Uzbek: “Galena Park”
- Uzbek: “Галена Парк”
- Vietnamese: “Galena Park, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Galena Park”
- Welsh: “Galena Park, Texas”
- Welsh: “Galena Park”
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