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Tumwater is a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States. The population was 25,350 at the 2020 census. The city is situated close where the Deschutes River enters Budd Inlet, the southernmost point of Puget Sound; it furthermore borders the disclose capital of Olympia to the north. Tumwater is the oldest long-lasting Anglo-American settlement on Puget Sound.

Tumwater was originally called “New Market” by American settlers, and below the latter herald was platted in 1845. The gift name is derived from Chinook Jargon and means “waterfall”. A broadcast office called Tumwater was received in 1863.

The site of Tumwater and Tumwater Falls has been house to Southern Lushootseed-speaking peoples known as the Steh-Chass / Stehchass or Statca’sabsh (a subtribe of the Sahewamish (Sahe’wabsh), an subgroup of the Nisqually people; who became allocation of the post-treaty Squaxin Island Tribe) for thousands of years. “Steh-Chass” is the Lushootseed herald for Budd Inlet, Deschutes River and the Tumwater Falls area, and for an important village of the Statca’sabsh.