Galion Ohio is famous for the Galion History Center which is an historic campus that is located in Galion OH.
Brownella Cottage, home of William Montgomery Brown and his wife Ella, is a house museum(1887) which is in the care of the Galion History Center.
Brownella Cottage which is a rare gem is filled entirely with furniture that is original to the Brown Family.
The etymology of the name Galion is uncertain.
A post office called Galion has been in operation since 1825.
Asa Hosford is considered the "Father of Galion" due to his work as a state legislator in which he did work to get a rail line through the area that was completed in 1851.
Galion Ohio was platted on September 10, 1831, and flourished when two rail lines came through town in the 1850s.
Today Galion Ohio is a rural city of just over 10,000 people located in southeastern Crawford County, and some of the corporation limits extend into Richland County and Morrow County.
Galion Ohio Zip code is 44833.
The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Galion; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 472.
This equates to a rate of 2 per one thousand inhabitants.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Galion's rate for property crime is 18 per one thousand population.
Galion is a city in Crawford, Morrow, and Richland counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.
The population was 10,453 at the 2020 census.
Galion is the second-largest city in Crawford County after Bucyrus.
The Crawford County portion of Galion is part of the Bucyrus Micropolitan Statistical Area.