Are there Falls in Kettle Falls?
Located to the south of where the Kettle River flows into the Columbia (here in its impounded form as Lake Roosevelt), Kettle Falls homes are a little more than ten minutes from Colville, less than two hours from Spokane and around 50 minutes from Rossland, British Columbia.
The second question most visitors to the city usually ask is "Where are the falls?" (the first being "Who's the grouch?"). Well, the answer is that there aren't any. That is to say, there were falls when folks first came up with the name more than a hundred years ago, but they were submerged when Grand Coulee Dam was completed in 1942.
For nine thousand years, a fishery at the falls served as a major fishing and gathering spot for many northwest Native American tribes. Before the construction of the dam, the roar of the cascading water would have been audible for miles and in the spring and summer you would have seen salmon leaping by the thousands.
In fact, this is where the original site of the city of Kettle Falls was. Incorporated in 1891, the first city was adjacent to the fishery and planned out as a resort town. The first Kettle Falls real estate consisted of hotels and other resort facilities; and when the dam was being built, homes and buildings were relocated to the area where the present city now stands.
Kettle Falls the city survived; and when the water level in Roosevelt Lake drops, you can sometimes catch a glimpse of the lost waterfall from which it gets its name.
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