Othello is a city in Adams County, Washington, United States. The population was 7,364 at the 2010 census, a 26 percent enlargement from 2000. It is located in the heart of the Columbia Basin Project, approximately 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Spokane. The city is 25 miles (40 km) south of Interstate 90 in Moses Lake and is joined by State Route 17 and State Route 26.

The first white settlers in the Place were two brothers, Ben and Sam Hutchinson, who built a cabin along the Crab Creek in 1884. An influx of homesteaders began after the Begin of the 20th century, and a state office was conventional in 1904. The name office was named Othello in a public contest after a herald office also known as Othello in Roane County, Tennessee.

The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad ran a track through Adams County in 1907. In 1912, a hotel was built for the railroad workers. That hotel would be highly developed known as the Old Hotel and Art Gallery. The railroad officially platted the town as a stop, with water to feed the boilers of steam trains. They kept the publicize Othello and built a railyard and wooden roundhouse there. Although the roundhouse burned in 1919, it was replaced subsequently a brick structure that lasted many years. Businesses and settlers continued to follow, and the town was incorporated upon May 31, 1910. At the time the railroad was the eastern terminus of the second electrified district of the Milwaukee Road’s “Pacific Extension” route, which lengthy up to Tacoma, Washington. The railroad was and no-one else in 1980 in the same way as the Milwaukee Road’s bankruptcy.

The Bureau of Reclamation located offices in Othello in 1947, which prevented the terminate of this town afterward the halt of rail shipping after World War II. In the to the front 1950s, the Columbia Basin Project brought irrigation to the Othello area, increasing both agriculture and commerce. Prior to this, water came deserted from Crab Creek and from local wells. The water arrived via the Potholes East Canal surrounded by Billy Clapp Lake and Scootenay Reservoir in Franklin County. Once there was irrigation available, a home drawing was held in Othello. On May 31, 1952, 42 names were drawn (of higher than 7000 submitted) for the privilege of purchasing this newly desirable acreage.