Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Fall City, WA

Fall City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in King County, about 25 miles east of Seattle, at the confluence of the Snoqualmie River and the Raging River.

The area's first settlement consisted of two forts built in 1856 during the Puget Sound War — Fort Patterson downstream and Fort Tilton upstream — constructed with the help of Snoqualmie people led by Chief Patkanim and abandoned within two years as relations stayed peaceful; a historical marker on Fish Hatchery Road marks the Fort Tilton site.

Fall City was first known as "The Landing" because rapids and shallow water upstream made it the head of navigation for the large dugout canoes carrying goods up the Snoqualmie River, and a trading post opened near the present-day Last Frontier Saloon in 1869.

The Fall City post office opened on June 10, 1872, and in the early 1870s the first mill in the Snoqualmie Valley opened at the mouth of Tokul Creek, just downstream from Snoqualmie Falls.

Landowner Jeremiah "Jerry" Borst had Fall City surveyed and platted in the late 1880s in anticipation of a railroad boom, but the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway line was built about a mile away in 1889; even so, the railroad and the first bridge over the Snoqualmie River boosted local mills, farms, and tourism to Snoqualmie Falls.

Improvements to the Sunset Highway through Fall City in the early 1910s fueled a tourist economy, but the town declined after World War II when U.S. Highway 10 — now Interstate 90 — was rerouted to bypass Fall City and Snoqualmie to the south and local logging mills closed.

The 2020 census counted 2,032 residents in 752 households in Fall City, continuing slow growth from 1,528 residents in 1980 and 1,993 in 2010.

State Route 202 bisects Fall City and meets State Route 203 in the community, linking it to Woodinville, North Bend, Duvall, and Monroe, and the small private Fall City Airport lies about 2 miles east.

Two Snoqualmie Valley School District schools are located in Fall City: Fall City Elementary School and Chief Kanim Middle School.

The Fall City Roadhouse served as a filming location for the television series Twin Peaks, and today Fall City is a bedroom community for Seattle-area technology workers, though its riverside setting leaves it prone to flooding during autumn and winter storms.