Hoquiam ( HOH-kwee-əm) is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. It borders the city of Aberdeen at Myrtle Street, with Hoquiam to the west. The two cities share a common economic chronicles in lumbering and exporting, but Hoquiam has maintained its independent identity. It shares a long rivalry next its more populated neighbor, especially in high school sports.

Hoquiam (Ho’-kwee-um, or Ho-kwim, to natives) was incorporated on May 21, 1890. Its say comes from a Native-American word meaning “hungry for wood”, from the great amount of driftwood at the mouth of the Hoquiam River. The population was 8,726 at the 2010 Census.

One of the first logging operations in Hoquiam was customary by Ed Campbell in 1872.

About 10 years later, Captain Asa M. Simpson, a Pacific Coast mariner and businessman in the lumber industry from San Francisco, provided the financing for the Northwestern Mill. In 1881, Simpson sent his manager, George Emerson, to Hoquiam to verify a mill there, and Emerson purchased 300 acres for the other mill and lumber operation. By September 1882, the Simpson mill was producing its first lumber products.

In 1886, Captain Simpson compound his mill similar to the Miller Brothers mill, also located in Hoquiam, and named it the Northwest Lumber Company The mill was far along renamed the Simpson Lumber Company, and retained that herald until 1906. In 1913, Frank J. Shields became the additional manager at the mill at Hoquiam.