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Granite Falls, MN - History
We would like to provide the residents of Granite Falls a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Granite Falls Home page. The Granite Falls Home page provides as much information as possible on Granite Falls. Knowing Granite Falls’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Granite Falls’s Home page, you will also find Granite Falls’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Granite Falls has a population of 2636. 48.7% of Granite Falls’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.3 are female. 49.9% of Granite Falls is married and 62.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $126,715, and the average rent is $632. Household median income in Granite Falls is $51,006, and the individual median income is $29,911. Granite Falls’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.5%), Hispanic(6.6%), Native(5.3%), Multiple(3.1%), Black(1.7%), Other(0.3%).
On July 25, 2000, the city of Granite Falls and Yellow Medicine County were hit by a powerful tornado. The tornado first touched down in rural parts of the county west-northwest of Granite Falls, hitting the city at 6:10 pm. After tearing through the residential sections of town, the tornado lifted at approximately 6:25PM after being on the ground for over nine miles.
One person was killed, more than a dozen were injured, and the town and surrounding area suffered millions of dollars in property damage. Most of the damage in Granite Falls was rated F2 and F3, but the extent of the damage at the corner of 9th Avenue and 14th Street caused the National Weather Service to classify it as an F4 tornado.
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