Galena, Oregon

Galena is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States, about 20 miles (32 km) from Austin Junction in the Blue Mountains.

[1] It is on the Middle Fork John Day River in the Malheur national forest.

[2] The locale was settled in 1865 as a mining community on the Middle Fork John Day River near its confluence with Elk Creek.

[3] Galena post office was established in 1901 when a group of miners were able to get the Susanville post office moved from the current site of Galena two miles up Elk Creek to their mine.

[3] The new post office was named for a body of galena ore in the area, and the town was renamed as well.