Granite Falls, Washington
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Granite Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98252. It stands on Cedar Glen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granite Falls quadrangle. 4,450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.
On record in Granite Falls
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 1 record
Verlot Ranger Station-Public Service Centerlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresGranite Falls grew from 3,364 to 4,450 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,364 | |
| 2020 | 4,450 | +1,086 (+32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1899 USGS Stillaguamish quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Stilaguamish quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1901 USGS Stillaguamish quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Granite Falls quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Granite Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
What the histories say of this town
3,301 words2 chapters about Granite Falls from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future | Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914) | 900 words |
| History | History of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926) | 2,401 words |
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Granite Falls between 1992 and 2019, burning about 109 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CANYON CREEK |
| 12 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CADMAN |
| 11 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CANYON DR #2 |
| 1 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 300 RD |
| 9 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RED FOX |
| 8 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RUSSIAN ROAD |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | 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 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Granite Falls: 21 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects, 4 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blomquist | Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Blomquist Mine | Silver, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite | |
| Fry Property | Copper, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Granco Quarry | Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Granite Falls | Magnesite | Occurrence | ||
| Granite Falls Prospect | Mercury, Nickel | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Garnierite, Genthite | |
| Haun Prospect | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| Kings Lake | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Wayside | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Wayside | Copper, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver, Lead, Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granite Falls in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2010 | Flood | Granite Falls | $1,100,000 | About 33 homes, and one business, were damaged in Granite Falls, Arlington, and Stanwood when the Stillaguamish River hit record flood stage. Parts of Highway 530 were closed. About 240 homes were issued a voluntary evacuation, while 6 people had to be rescued by hovercraft near Granite Falls. |
| January 2011 | Flood | Granite Falls | $50,000 | Flooding on the North Fork of the Skykomish River finally uprooted and washed away a cabin near index (it had been eroding the land for many years). The South Fork of the Stillaguamish river undermined a section of the Mountain Loop Highway east of Granite Falls. |
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.
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 Granite Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506731 | 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 1520218. 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.







