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Aberdeen is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 17,013 at the 2020 census. The city is the economic middle of Grays Harbor County, bordering the cities of Hoquiam and Cosmopolis. Aberdeen is occasionally referred to as the “Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula”.

Aberdeen was named after a local salmon cannery to reflect its Scottish fishing harbor namesake Aberdeen, and, like Scotland, Aberdeen is situated at the mouth of two rivers – the Chehalis and the Wishkah.

The city was founded by Samuel Benn in 1884 and incorporated upon May 12, 1890. Although it became the largest and best-known city in Grays Harbor, Aberdeen lagged behind affable Hoquiam and Cosmopolis in its in advance years. When A.J. West built the town’s first sawmill in 1894, the extra two municipalities had been in concern for several years. Aberdeen and its neighbors vied to be the terminus for Northern Pacific Railroad, but on the other hand of ending at one of the expected mill towns, the railroad skimmed through Cosmopolis and headed west for Ocosta. Hoquiam and Aberdeen citizens together built a spur; in 1895, the line combined Northern Pacific tracks to Aberdeen.