Mabton is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,959 at the 2020 census. Incorporated during the first few years of the 20th century, it is located at the eastern edge of the Yakama Indian Reservation.

The Mabton area’s indigenous inhabitants were the Yakama people, who were goaded onto a reservation in 1855. Mabton’s existence as a town is due to the Northern Pacific Railway, which arrived in the area around 1884 and built a water tower and section home on the site. Nothing else existed at Mabton until 1892 in the aerate of Sam P. Flower built a stock and a warehouse. He soon became the town’s first postmaster. Mabton was named by Charlie Sandburg, a Swedish railworker, who proposed the name “Mabletown” for the wife (or daughter) of a railroad endorsed who had spoken nice words to track workers during an inspection. By 1895, Mabton had several stores, a hotel, a railroad depot and a schoolhouse. The Mabton Townsite Company, formed by Sam P. Flower and J.A. Humphrey, made the first plat in 1902, and by 1904, it had beyond a dozen businesses and a newspaper. The town of Mabton officially incorporated on November 7, 1905.

Today, residents primarily are employed in occupations combined to agriculture, especially hop growing and grape growing.

The Mabton School District has been the repeated receiver of grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: