The record low temperature of −3 ☏ (−19 ☌) was on Decem There are an average of 51.3 afternoons annually with highs of 90 ☏ (32 ☌) or higher, eight afternoons reaching at least 100 ☏ (38 ☌), and 77.5 mornings annually with lows of 32 ☏ (0 ☌) or lower. The record high temperature of 114 ☏ (46 ☌) was on July 23, 1928. The mild winters and dry summers support a native vegetation structure quite different from the rest of Oregon, dominated by madrone, deciduous and evergreen oak, manzanita, pine, bush chinquapin, and other species that are far less abundant further north. Grants Pass receives roughly 31 inches (790 mm) precipitation per year, with three-quarters of it occurring between November 1 and March 31. Winters are cool and fairly rainy, with only occasional snow the average January high temperature is 47.6 ☏ (8.7 ☌) and the low is 35.3 ☏ (1.8 ☌). Summer days are sunny, dry and hot, with dramatic cooling at night the average August high temperature is 90.6 ☏ (32.6 ☌) and the low is 54.9 ☏ (12.7 ☌). According to the Köppen climate classification system, Grants Pass has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate ( Csa). True to its motto, "It's the climate!", Grants Pass has a USDA plant hardiness zone 8b climate. The city has a total area of 11.03 square miles (28.6 km 2), of which 10.87 square miles (28.2 km 2) is land and 0.16 square miles (0.41 km 2) is water. Route 199 passes through the city, and joins Interstate 5. Grants Pass is located in the Rogue Valley the Rogue River runs through the city. Although there was no documented law of the racist policy, it was enforced locally via residents and signage. Grants Pass, along with Medford and Ashland was an unofficial " sundown town", which actively warned Black and other non-white people to leave town before sunset or face violence and harassment. Due to labor shortages and low acreage planted in sugar beets, the processing machinery was moved to Toppenish, Washington, in 1918 or 1919.
Before the factory opened, Oregon-Utah Sugar was merged into the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. Nibley, was created, leading to a sugar beet factory being built in Grants Pass in 1916. The Oregon–Utah Sugar Company, financed by Charles W. The city of Grants Pass was incorporated in 1887. The Grants Pass post office was established on March 22, 1865.
The city states that the name was selected to honor General Ulysses S. In the late 1840s, settlers (mostly American) following the Applegate Trail began traveling through the area on their way to the Willamette Valley.
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