Fall City, Washington
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98024. It stands on Raging River. The Survey maps it on the Fall City quadrangle. 2,032 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.
On record in Fall City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Falls City Masonic Halllisted 2004
Neighbor-Bennett Houselisted 2004
Population over time
3 figuresFall City grew from 1,638 to 2,032 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,638 | |
| 2010 | 1,993 | +355 (+22%) |
| 2020 | 2,032 | +39 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1921 USGS Sultan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1923 USGS Sultan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Fall City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Skykomish River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Fall City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fall City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RAGING RIVER |
| 13 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MITCHELL HILL |
| 9 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MICKEY MOUSE |
| 20 July 2013 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | ECHO LAKE |
| 15 July 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 46 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOKUL |
| 11 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fall City: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Raging River Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Chisholm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Foster Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hjort Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Smart Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fall City in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Fall City | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Glen | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Tokul | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Preston | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Snoqualmie | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Upper Preston | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Snoqualmie Falls | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| High Point | 5.3 miles | 18 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Fall City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1514432 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1531451. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





