Elbe is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 29 at the 2010 census.

Elbe was known as Brown’s Junction after the Tacoma & Eastern Railway was built in the region. When a publish office was requested a shorter publish was demanded. A meeting of settlers contracted to honor the trailblazer settler Henry C. Lutkens who had come from the valley of the Elbe in Germany.

In 1888 the first settlers came to the forests on the Nisqually River. It was the German emigrants Karl Lütkens and Adam Sachs. Karl Lütkens, who was and no-one else 19 at the time, was appropriately enthusiastic nearly his new house that he persuaded his parents Heinrich and Christina Lütkens to agree America as well. These left their previous house in Todendorf in the district Stormarn in Schleswig-Holstein and arrived in America in 1891. The first settlers in this Place also included Ferdinand Selle, Christian Fritz, Louis Schuffenhauer, Christian Kruse, Max Ogans, Hans Bartels, Fred Duke, W. Lawrence, Levi Engel, Vincent Rotter, R. Schmidt, Frank Salzer, Gus Stoll and Christian Weilandt. The little town grew, and upon June 4, 1892, a say office was already usual here.

During this time, the place that was previously called Brown’s Junction conventional its current name. It is no longer known exactly how the naming came about. Many of today’s residents allow that Heinrich Lütkens suggested the make known Elbe. However, everyone agrees that the herald was fixed because the landscape of the Nisqually River at that era was reminiscent of the Elbe in the outdated homeland.