Place:Kettle Falls, Stevens, Washington, United States

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NameKettle Falls
Alt namesMeyers Fallssource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS53010583
TypeCity
Coordinates48.606°N 118.06°W
Located inStevens, Washington, United States
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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Kettle Falls is a city in Stevens County, Washington, United States, named for the nearby Kettle Falls on the Kettle River. The city itself is located on the Colville River immediately upstream from its confluence with the Columbia River. The population of the city was 1,595 at the time of the 2010 census, a 4.5% increase over the 2000 census.

History

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The original Kettle Falls was officially incorporated on December 17, 1891 on the bank of the Columbia. After it was flooded by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1940, city planners relocated the town at a community called Meyers Falls, near the railroad lines, helping to ensure its success as a trans-shipment point for the logging, agriculture, and paper industries. This is its present location, eight miles northwest of Colville and roughly 80 miles northwest of Spokane.

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