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We would like to provide the residents of  Grand Mound  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Grand Mound Home page. The Grand Mound Home page provides as much information as possible on Grand Mound. Knowing Grand Mound’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Grand Mound’s Home page, you will also find Grand Mound’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Grand Mound has a population of 3957. 40.4% of Grand Mound’s inhabitants are Male, and 59.6 are female. 52.7% of Grand Mound is married and 62% own their own home. The Average Home price is $225,896, and the average rent is $1,156. Household median income in Grand Mound is $51,765, and the individual median income is $35,481. Grand Mound’s Ethnic is the following: White(68.2%), Hispanic(21.7%), Multiple(15.9%), Other(10.8%), Native(3.2%), Asian(1.5%), Black(0.3%).


Founded in 1851, stage service arrived in 1854. In 1913, the Washington State School for Girls (also known as the State Training School for Girls) was created and opened on 70 acres (28 ha) in 1914. The school was renamed to Maple Lane School in 1959, and closed in 2011.In the 1920s, strawberries became a major crop in the area, and a processing plant was built, but during the Great Depression the industry failed and the Northern Pacific Railway closed the Grand Mound station.


By 1941 the population of the area had grown to about 200 people and the community had a post office along with a store and a single gas station. In 1964, the Grand Mound Fire District was formed, merging twice, in 2002 with Thurston County Fire District #1, and then into the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.


A new fire station was built to serve Grand Mound in 2007.The community became a census-designated place in 1990. In March 2008, a 398-room Great Wolf Lodge opened in Grand Mound, which was majority owned by the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.


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