ABERDEEN, a port of entry, the largest city of Grays Harbor county, Washington, U.S.A., on the north shore of Grays Harbor, about 5o m. W. of Olympia. It has an area of 10.5 sq.m. ; is built on both sides of the Chehalis and the Wishkah rivers; and adjoins the city of Hoquiam (q.v.) on the west, and the town of Cosmopolis (population 1920, 1,512) on the east. The population of Aberdeen increased from 3,747 in 1900 to 15,337 in 1920, of whom 4,221 were foreign-born whites (nearly half Scandinavians) and it was 21,723 in 1930 by the Federal cen sus. The three municipalities form one community, with a popu lation (1927) of over 3o,000 ; served by the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railways, by auto-stages to Puget sound, and by 39 steamship lines under seven flags.
Grays Harbor was discovered in 1792 by Capt. Robert Gray of Boston, on a trading voyage around the world. Aberdeen was founded in 1867 by Samuel Benn, who in 1873 established a cannery, and in 1883 planned the town site. It was incorporated in 1890.