Warden is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,692 at the 2010 census.

The Central Basin plateau was arranged in the late 1800s by immigrants of Russian-German (Bessarabian) ancestry who homesteaded in the Place and farmed dryland wheat. Prior to this the Place had been inhabited by local Native American Salish tribes that had right of entry with the before Spanish and British traders. The Milwaukee Railroad arrived in the prematurely 1900s and attracted supplementary settlers, including Doc Harris who expected a drug and sundries addition with physician facilities in Warden practically 1905. The town’s proclaim of “Warden” comes from its Bessarabian German descent and means “worthy” or “treasured” as may be noted in the Das Deutsche Woerterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. A local tradition attributes the name of the town to Doc Harris’s son Ward. However, the area of the town was living thing referred to as “Warden” by its German settlers long in the past Doc Harris arrived, as may be noted in the Protokol, official church archives in German of the indigenous church which is today the Warden Community Church. Other within reach towns then carry Bessarabian German names such as Lind, Ruff, and Odessa. The Bessarabian German tradition of the town has long previously vanished and has been mostly replaced taking into consideration a impure Anglo/Hispanic culture in the same way as a current population that is of a propos 72% Hispanic heritage.

In regards to the chronicles of the present-day Hispanic populace, some of the families can trace their heritage support to the days of the antique Spanish gate in the area. This first outfit predates the influx of Bessarabian German settlers by decades. A large number of Hispanics came to undertaking in the fields that opened to more diverse agriculture after the federal Columbia Basin Project brought irrigation to the area. This second action of Hispanics came occurring from Texas, but they had roots in the villages on the order of the city of Monterey, Mexico. They affirmation a distinct Tejano culture and have been in the US for generations already. The third society are the most recent arrivals that seem to the front mostly from the West Mexican States of Jalisco, Sinaloa, and Sonora. They have a culture that is positive from the Tejanos in many regards, including language, music, and food. Many in this third group still may speak only Spanish; whereas the new groups may be bilingual or talk only English already.

The Town of Warden was officially incorporated June 28, 1910. By 1917 the population of Warden reached 300. Electricity arrived in 1939, but the town’s population declined through World War II.

In 1945 the dawn of the Columbia Basin Project would bring irrigation water from Grand Coulee Dam to irrigate greater than 530,000 acres (2,100 km²) of arid but fertile soil. In 1948 the federal processing started selling government-owned farm units on the Columbia Basin Project to credited applicants subsequent to preference to veterans. By 1954 the East Low Canal was finished. As a outcome of the project, the population of Warden grew from 322 in 1950 to 949 in 1960 to 1,639 in 1990 and has continued to amass to the current population of very nearly 2,600.