Fall City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States. Located 25 miles (40 km) east of Seattle, the community lies along the Snoqualmie River. The population was 1,993 at the 2010 census.

The first settlements in the area were two forts built in 1856 during the Puget Sound War to guard future settlers next to possible uprisings by the original population. Fort Patterson, a few miles downstream, and Fort Tilton, a few miles upstream, were built like the put occurring to of Indians led by Chief Patkanim, and both were without help within two years after interactions with the local tribes remained peaceful. A historical marker can be found north of Fall City on the Fish Hatchery Road where Fort Tilton past stood.

A trading post was established close the present-day location of the Last Frontier Saloon in 1869 and became a hub of the local economy. Fall City was known at the period as “The Landing”, as shallow water and rapids upstream on the Snoqualmie were impassable to the large dugout canoes used for transporting goods. In the at the forefront 1870s the first local mill in the Snoqualmie Valley was opened at the mouth of Tokul Creek, just downstream from Snoqualmie Falls and just upstream from where drop City would be. The Fall City say office opened June 10, 1872.

The first little steamboats started ferrying supplies in the works the river in 1875. In the late 1880s, a help of Puget Sound businessmen founded and started building the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, including a line going on into the upper Snoqualmie Valley, in an try to construct a line higher than the Cascade Range. The land allegation holder at the time, Jeremiah “Jerry” Borst, had Fall City surveyed and platted in anticipation of the people the railroad would bring, but was disappointed in 1889 later than the railroad descent was built a mile (1.6 km) away from the community.

However, even a mile away the railroad, combined once the first bridge more than the Snoqualmie River, greatly better the thing of the local lumber mills and farmers, and made the Place and its scenic features (such as Snoqualmie Falls) accessible to tourists. Hundreds moved to the area over the next two decades.