Kittitas () is a city in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,381 at the 2010 census and an estimated 1,493 in 2018.

There are numerous interpretations of the name, which is from the language of the Kittitas American Indian language. According to one source, it “has been said to mean everything from ‘white chalk’ to ‘shale rock’ to ‘shoal people’ to ‘land of beauty’. Most anthropologists and historians concede that each remarks has some validity depending on the particular dialect spoken.”

Kittitas was acknowledged in 1883 and officially incorporated on December 9, 1931. It was founded as allowance of the westward move on of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. The Kittitas Yard and Depot became the center of the community of Kittitas, one of the many small, agricultural towns that sprang occurring along the railroad lines. The railroad connected Kittitas to other little communities and the get off of the country, providing farmers and business people a showing off to sell their products in additional towns and cities.

A publish office, general merchandise and drug store, a Baptist church, agricultural warehouses, and other small businesses were built on the subject of the small depot. Along like the depot, the Kittitas Yard included storage and keep buildings, a water tower, and extra structures vital for the grant of a major transcontinental railroad.

The depot is the and no-one else significant structure still intact at the Kittitas Yard. It is an excellent example of turn-of-the-century railroad architecture, and as such was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The depot is owned and managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.