Warden is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,449 at the 2020 census.

The Central Basin plateau was approved in the late 1800s by immigrants of Russian-German (Bessarabian) ancestry who homesteaded in the Place and farmed dryland wheat. Prior to this the Place had been inhabited by local Native American Salish tribes that had get into with the in advance Spanish and British traders. The Milwaukee Railroad arrived in the to the lead 1900s and attracted supplementary settlers, including Doc Harris who time-honored a drug and sundries gathering with physician services in Warden approximately 1905. The town’s proclaim of “Warden” comes from its Bessarabian German extraction and means “worthy” or “treasured” as may be noted in the Das Deutsche Woerterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. A local tradition attributes the make known of the town to Doc Harris’s son Ward. However, the area of the town was inborn referred to as “Warden” by its German settlers long before Doc Harris arrived, as may be noted in the Protokol, official church archives in German of the indigenous church which is today the Warden Community Church. Other to hand towns plus carry Bessarabian German names such as Lind, Ruff, and Odessa. The Bessarabian German tradition of the town has long previously vanished and has been mostly replaced in imitation of a infected Anglo/Hispanic culture gone a current population that is of approximately 72% Hispanic heritage.

In regards to the chronicles of the present-day Hispanic populace, some of the families can relish their heritage back to the days of the olden Spanish entrйe in the area. This first society predates the influx of Bessarabian German settlers by decades. A large number of Hispanics came to pretend in the fields that opened to more diverse agriculture after the federal Columbia Basin Project brought irrigation to the area. This second group of Hispanics came stirring from Texas, but they had roots in the villages as regards the city of Monterey, Mexico. They allegation a distinct Tejano culture and have been in the US for generations already. The third bureau are the most recent arrivals that seem at the forefront mostly from the West Mexican States of Jalisco, Sinaloa, and Sonora. They have a culture that is positive from the Tejanos in many regards, including language, music, and food. Many in this third group nevertheless may talk only Spanish; whereas the other groups may be bilingual or talk only English already.

The Town of Warden was officially incorporated June 28, 1910. By 1917 the population of Warden reached 300. Electricity arrived in 1939, but the town’s population declined through World War II.