Moxee is a small suburban community southeast of Yakima, Washington.

[2] According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management,[5] Moxee ranked 5th of 279 eligible incorporated communities in population growth between 2000 and 2005.

Moxee was first settled by Mortimer Thorp and several French-Canadian farmers who arrived in 1867.

A warm spring on the Thorp ranch emitted steam year 'round and never froze.

It was known as "Moxee" by the native people, a Sahaptin word for an edible root,[6] and was the name was adopted for the settlement.

By the turn-of-the century, the Northern Pacific Railroad had completed a railway line nearby and irrigation projects were being constructed making rich farmland available to new settlers.

[8] Street and road names in the vicinity, such as Charron, Faucher, Rivard, Beaudry, Desmarais, Robillard, Beauchene, Gamache, Champoux, Morrier, and St. Hilaire, continue to reflect Moxee's French-Canadian heritage.

In 2016, several homes near Moxie were evacuated because of the Range 12 fire, which ultimately destroyed over tens-of-thousands of acres in Yakima County.

[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.69 square miles (4.38 km2), all of it land.