The Galena plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1919. Next is 77° in 1955.
Galena’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 120 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mauldin Mountain, about 360 ft, 12 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Upland Deposits (Eastern Shore) (gravel, sand), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gravel, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Galena reaches Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Mill Creek and the Sassafras: about 11 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Galena; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Galena has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Galena normally reaches 56° and falls to 37°. The record high is 77°, in 1955; the record low 21°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.83 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1919 at Aberdeen Phillips Field, 18 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
