Granite Falls is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located surrounded by the Pilchuck and Stillaguamish rivers in the western foothills of the Cascade Range, northeast of Lake Stevens and Marysville. The city is named for a waterfall north of downtown on the Stillagumish River, also accessible via the Mountain Loop Highway. It had a population of 3,364 at the 2010 census.

The site of Granite Falls was originally a portage for local Coast Salish tribes prior to the initiation of American settlers. The pact was founded in 1884 and prospered after the discovery of gold and silver in the Monte Cristo mines located east of Granite Falls on the Everett and Monte Cristo Railway. Granite Falls was platted in 1891 and incorporated as a fourth-class town upon November 8, 1903.

The Pilchuck River and Upper Stillaguamish basin was historically inhabited by the Skykomish people, who used the modern-day site of Granite Falls as a portage along with extra Coast Salish tribes. Several Skykomish archaeological sites were discovered in the 1970s in the midst of modern-day Granite Falls and Lochsloy, with exceeding 700 artifacts recovered from cutting edge excavation.

The first steadfast European settler was Joseph Sous Enas, who staked a homestead claim in 1884 on land south of the gift city. The townsite was platted in 1891, following the construction of a name office and general store. The Everett and Monte Cristo Railway reached Granite Falls upon October 16, 1892, building a station for the town upon the route amid the mining area of Monte Cristo (now a ghost town) and the county chair of Everett. The city was officially incorporated on December 21, 1903. He was quickly followed by supplementary homesteaders, benefiting from “the vast Burn”, a forest fire that cleared the heavily forested estate and made it easier for settlers to stake claims.

By 1896, there were plenty residents to petition the allow in of a bookish district (Granite Falls District #1)