Kettle Falls is a city in Stevens County, Washington, United States, named for the Kettle Falls on the Columbia River, which was submerged after Grand Coulee Dam was built. The city itself is located on the Colville River immediately upstream from its confluence with the Columbia River. The population was 1,636 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 1,649 in 2024.
History
The original Kettle Falls was officially incorporated on December 17, 1891, on the bank of the Columbia. Before 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.
Geography
It is south of the Canada–United States border at Laurier and adjacent to Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir of the Columbia River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.