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Grantsville is the second most populous city in Tooele County, Utah, and part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, with 12,617 residents counted in the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 3,734 households in the city, with a median age of 31.7 years.

The area was originally populated by the Goshute people, and Mormon pioneers James McBride and Harrison Severe arrived with their families in 1850.

The settlement was first called Willow Creek and was also known as Twenty Wells for the natural wells that supplied fresh water, before taking the name Grantsville around 1853 for Colonel George D. Grant, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A post office called Grantsville has operated since 1864, and the city was incorporated on January 12, 1867.

Grantsville is bordered on the south by South Mountain, which separates Rush Valley from Tooele Valley, with the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake to the east and the Stansbury Mountains to the west.

State Route 138 passes through the city, heading northwest to Interstate 80 and east to Stansbury Park.

The city has grown rapidly in recent decades, rising from 8,893 residents in 2010 to 12,617 in 2020, as a bedroom community for Salt Lake Valley commuters drawn by lower housing costs and a small-town feel.

Grantsville is in the Tooele County School District, with three elementary schools named Grantsville, Twenty Wells, and Willow, plus Grantsville Junior High School and Grantsville High School.

The Old Folks Sociable, first held in Grantsville on January 6, 1884, honors residents and former residents aged 75 and older each March with a 5K run, car show, dinner, and dance at Grantsville High School.