HOQUIAM (ho'-kwi-am), a city of Grays Harbor county, Washington, U.S.A., on Grays Harbor, at the mouth of the Hoquiam river, from the ocean, adjoining the city of Aber deen on the west. It is on the Olympic highway ; is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific railways; and has a municipal airport. The population was 2,608 in i9oo; 10,058 in 1920; and was 12,766 in 1930.
The Port of Grays Harbor (see ABERDEEN), the greatest lum ber-shipping port in the country, and one of the greatest in the world, is at the junction of the two cities, the terminals lying within the bounds of Hoquiam. The commercial and industrial interests of the cities are identical. Back of them, in the Olympic Peninsula, is the greatest remaining stand of evergreen timber in the country. Hoquiam has giant saw-mills; door, veneer and other woodworking plants ; a steel foundry ; and canneries handling fruit and vegetables, clams and salmon. The pulp and paper industry has begun to develop. In 1927 the output of the factories within the city limits was valued at $20,000,000. Hoquiam is the gate way to the vast recreational area of the Olympic Peninsula, which contains Lake Quinault, the Olympic National Forest, Mount Olympus National Monument, and numerous sea-side resorts. The Quinault Indian Reservation is on the coast, to the north-west. Hoquiam was settled in 1882 and incorporated in 1889. The name is a modification of an Indian word meaning "hungry for wood."