Aberdeen () is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 16,896 at the 2010 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 because it, too, is situated at the mouth of two rivers (Aberdeen, Scotland is bordered by the River Don to the north and the River Dee to the south).

Aberdeen 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 within reach Hoquiam and Cosmopolis in its upfront years. When A.J. West built the town’s first sawmill in 1894, the new two municipalities had been in concern for several years. Aberdeen and its neighbors vied to be the terminus for Northern Pacific Railroad, but otherwise 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 partnered Northern Pacific tracks to Aberdeen.

By 1900, Aberdeen had become house to many saloons, whorehouses, and gambling establishments. It was nicknamed “The Hellhole of the Pacific”, as competently as “The Port of Missing Men” due to its tall murder rate. One notable resident was Billy Gohl, known locally as Billy “Ghoul”, who was rumored to have killed at least 140 men. Gohl was ultimately convicted of two murders.

Aberdeen was hit difficult during the Great Depression, which wise saying the number of major local sawmills cut from 37 to 9. The timber industry continued to boom, but by the late 1970s most of this resource had been logged. Most of the mills had closed next to by the 1970s and 1980s.