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Grantfork is a village in Madison County, Illinois, and is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area across the Mississippi River.

Grantfork was first platted as Fitz-James Crossing in 1837 and recorded as Fitz-James in 1840, and a new plat filed in 1866 renamed the settlement Saline.

In 1870, postal authorities required a different post office name because another Illinois community already used the name Saline.

Residents chose the name Grantfork to honor President Ulysses S. Grant and to mark the settlement's location at a fork of two creeks.

Grantfork was incorporated on February 18, 1886, but legally under the name Saline, and county and state documents kept using Saline long after locals had switched to Grantfork.

In 1886, water from a flooded coal mine shaft near Grantfork was found to contain minerals, and the Diamond Mineral Springs Hotel was built, turning the village into a health and summer resort whose restaurant successor was still operating in 2019.

Grantfork had 341 residents at the 2020 census, up from 254 people in 101 households at the 2000 census.

German is Grantfork's most commonly reported ancestry, claimed by roughly half of residents in Census Bureau survey data.

Rube Peters, a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and the Brooklyn Tip-Tops, was born in Grantfork.