Editing Galena, Kansas (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|4.62|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|4.57|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.05|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web |title=US Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=July 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archive-date=July 2, 2012 }}</ref> Galena is the eastern end of the segment of [[U.S. Route 66]] that passes through Kansas.

===Superfund site===
In 1983 as a result of historic practices involved in the mining and smelting of toxic metals, including the deposition of lead, zinc, antimony and cadmium, the Cherokee County [[Superfund]] site was listed on the EPA's National Priorities List (NPL). These sites include the most serious abandoned hazardous waste sites in the United States and represent the priority list for remedial action under the Superfund program. The site consists of approximately 115 square miles, divided into seven subsites including Galena. The Cherokee County site encompasses the Kansas portion of the Tri-State district, the latter including Northeastern Oklahoma and Southwestern Missouri. Acidic waters in mine shafts throughout the site, chat piles, tailings impoundments, and surface waters both in mine pits and streams draining the site contain substantial concentrations of these toxic wastes.<ref>[http://kensas.kdhe.state.ks.us:1776/berisl/getDocument.kdhe_ber;jsessionid=A2294353AECBF1582823D3555AAE0E83?documentId=2000000BVN_0VQK4DB8YRWE Environmental Use Control Work Plan June 1, 2009 to June 1, 2014], ''[[Kansas Department of Health and Environment]]''. Retrieved August 12, 2020.</ref>