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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.

Granite Falls within Snohomish County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Granite 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,364
20204,450+1,086 (+32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched 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.

What the histories say of this town

3,301 words

2 chapters about Granite Falls from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, FutureSnohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914)900 words
HistoryHistory of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926)2,401 words

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional 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 burning18
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Fireworks3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON CREEK
12 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCADMAN
11 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON DR #2
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters300 RD
9 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRED FOX
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRUSSIAN ROAD
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BlomquistCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Blomquist MineSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite
Fry PropertyCopper, ZincUnknown
Granco QuarryStone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite FallsMagnesiteOccurrence
Granite Falls ProspectMercury, NickelOccurrenceCinnabar, Garnierite, Genthite
Haun ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Kings LakeDiatomiteOccurrence
WaysideSilver, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium, Copper, GoldOccurrence
WaysideCopper, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2010FloodGranite Falls$1,100,000About 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 2011FloodGranite Falls$50,000Flooding 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.

Every storm recorded in Snohomish County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Lake Bosworth2.7 miles17
Riverside2.7 miles18
Sobey2.8 miles18
Lochsloy4.0 miles18
Hyland5.1 miles18
Pilchuck5.4 miles17
Jordan5.7 miles17
Hartford6.3 miles18

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 FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506731The 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.