Fife is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States and a suburb of Tacoma. The population was 9,173 at the 2010 census, estimated to have increased to 10,191 as of 2018. Fife is contained within the Puyallup Indian Reservation.

The humiliate Puyallup basin is the ancestral house of the Puyallup people, who were relocated after the signing of the Medicine Creek Treaty in 1854. The deal ceded Puyallup lands and created the Puyallup Indian Reservation, which was expanded to insert modern-day Fife. The land upon which the city sits was purposeless after the signing of the General Allotment Act in 1887 and other house transfers that were later conclusive in a 1990 claims settlement.

In 1940, Fife was described as “at a valley crossroads in the middle of a thickly arranged berry growing and truck-gardening district is represented by a string of markets, taverns, shops, and a large, balloon-roofed dance hall along the highway.” The 1940 population was 135. Fife was officially incorporated on February 11, 1957.

Due to the increased traffic volume traveling from Puyallup and Tacoma, Fife felt the craving to confirm itself as autonomous community, not just as an intermediate area between Interstate 5 (I-5) and State Route 167.

Fife may have been named for William J. Fife, a prominent Tacoma lawyer, Yukon prospector, once head of the Washington National Guard, and a lieutenant colonel in the showground during the Philippine Insurrection. There is plus a historic county of Scotland and former Pictish kingdom called Fife, which could next be a source of the city’s name.