Mabton is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,286 at the 2010 census. Incorporated during the first few years of the 20th century, it is located at the eastern edge of the Yakama Indian Reservation.

The Mabton area’s indigenous inhabitants were the Yakama people, who were annoyed onto a reservation in 1855. Mabton’s existence as a town is due to the Northern Pacific Railway, which arrived in the Place around 1884 and built a water tower and section home on the site. Nothing else existed at Mabton until 1892 gone Sam P. Flower built a store and a warehouse. He soon became the town’s first postmaster. Mabton was named by Charlie Sandburg, a Swedish railworker, who proposed the name “Mabletown” for the wife (or daughter) of a railroad ascribed who had spoken kind words to track workers during an inspection. By 1895, Mabton had several stores, a hotel, a railroad depot and a schoolhouse. The Mabton Townsite Company, formed by Sam P. Flower and J.A. Humphrey, made the first plat in 1902, and by 1904, it had over a dozen businesses and a newspaper. The town of Mabton officially incorporated on November 7, 1905.

Today, residents primarily are employed in occupations amalgamated to agriculture, especially hop growing and grape growing.

The Mabton School District has been the repeated beneficiary of grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

A little ranch near Mabton was home to the first confirmed battle of angry cow disease in the United States on December 23, 2003, later acknowledged to be a cow of Canadian origin imported to the U.S.