Falls City, OR

Falls City Map

Falls City is a city in Polk County, Oregon, United States. The population was 966 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Falls City is named after a waterfall in the Little Luckiamute River that passes through the center of town. In the past it was a lumbermill town and once had three mills in operation, a bank, hotel, soda shop, jail, and several grocery stores and bars. It formerly supported a large logging population and other population centers in the hills of the Coast Range, such as the smaller lumber-based community of Black Rock and the company-owned mill town Valsetz.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km2), all of it land.

Nearby cities include Rickreall, Independence, Willamina, Grand Ronde, Sheridan.