Bucoda is a town in Thurston County, Washington, United States. The population was 600 at the 2020 census. The community refers to itself as the “World’s Tiniest Town with the Biggest Halloween Spirit”.

The first American settler at what is now Bucoda was Aaron Webster (1828–1911) who arrived in 1854. In the 1860s Webster sold his claim and sawmill to Oliver Shead who officially named the settlement “Seatco”, a native word meaning evil activity or devil. The Northern Pacific Railroad located a station at Seatco in 1872. Later the town was renamed Bucoda using the first two letters of three principal investors in local industries- Buckley, Coulter, and David.

In the 1880s investors began operations to mine coal in the area, but the coal was of poor quality and operations were sporadic. From 1874 to 1888 Bucoda was the site of Washington’s first territorial prison. It garnered a reputation as a aggressive institution as the inmates were used for risky and brutal manual labor in local industry. It was discontinued subsequently the make a clean breast opened the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. Bucoda was officially incorporated on June 7, 1910. The town had a water tower that was scrapped in the upfront 1980s. The Mutual Lumber Mill was as a result productive the town was with billed as the “Town taking into account the Million Dollar Payroll”. The mill burned down and was rebuilt by yourself to have request wane and once once again it was consumed by flames.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.59 square miles (1.53 km), of which, 0.57 square miles (1.48 km²) is house and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km) is water.