Grand Saline is a city in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States, located in East Texas. The population was 3,136 as of 2010. Grand Saline is the third largest city in Van Zandt County and is located concerning 75 miles (120 km) east of Dallas and 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Tyler, the two nearest metropolitan areas, and is part of the greater Tyler/Longview area.

The town derives its herald from the large salt deposits located southeast of the city, the majority of which are owned by Morton Salt.

Grand Saline’s first settlers were the ancient Caddo Indians and Cherokee Indians tribes who discovered and made use of a large salt prairie south of the town. The Native Americans used evaporated salt from the brine stream that flows higher than the flats as a commodity they traded for new needed goods. By the mid-nineteenth century, the tribes had been goaded out of the Place by Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas and by general anti-Indian sentiment and moved southeast. Only a few years after the Indians left the salt prairie behind, a further group of settlers arrived. A settler named John Jordan and other settlers brought their families and set going on a primitive salt works. The community named Jordan’s Saline quickly became the middle of Van Zandt County and was, for a even though the county seat.

The salt produced here was used in the process of tanning leather and preserving food stuffs. Following the American Civil War the Texas and Pacific Railroad was outstretched from Marshall to Dallas. A parcel of home was donated to the railroad and a depot was built and the stop was named Grand Saline. The City of Grand Saline was incorporated in 1895 and the community of Jordan’s Saline faded into records as its residents moved north to the bustling supplementary city.