Galena Park is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area.

Issac Batterson and his family settled in the area in 1833; it was a part of the Ezekiel Thomas survey.

[6] The center of what would become Galena Park was a 1,000-acre (400 ha) tract that Batterson purchased from the estate of Ezekiel Thomas.

[5] The settlement originally served as a farming and ranching community, but in the 1880s transformed into a railroad center along the new Port of Houston.

Galena Park's original name survives today as the name of a major street in the city, Clinton Drive.

[citation needed] The economy further decreased after the September 11 attacks, when seaport administrators tightened security rules that governed whether sailors could leave ships docked at port.

[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.0 square miles (13 km2), all land.

The area around Galena Park includes freeways, freight railway, and heavy industry.

Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers of the Rice Design Alliance said in 2008 that the barricade "provides a stark example of how the prevailing segregationist sentiments of the era [are] still in evidence.

[23] The United States Postal Service operates the Galena Park Post Office at 1805 Clinton Drive.

A few in northeast Galena Park are zoned to Woodland Acres Middle School in Houston.

[29] In addition, GPISD operates the William F. "Bill" Becker Early Childhood Development Center, a preschool program for low-income families, in Galena Park.

The 5,800-square-foot (540 m2) branch, a partnership between HCPL and Galena Park, was built in March 1996, and opened in December of that year.