Bucoda (/bjuːˈkoʊdə/) is a town in Thurston County, Washington, United States.

The community refers to itself as the "World's Tiniest Town with the Biggest Halloween Spirit".

People in the town voiced a dislike of the name and the community was renamed Bucoda in 1890 by act of the state legislature.

An accepted theory of the origination of the moniker of Bucoda comes from the taking of the first two letters of the last name of three prominent members of the early town, William Buckley (Buckner), a man recorded with the last name of Coulter, and J.E.

A wooden, three-story structure, the jail garnered a reputation as a harsh institution as the inmates, some shackled for years, were used for dangerous and brutal manual labor in local industry.

[11][12] Bucoda was officially incorporated on June 7, 1910 and the first mayor was Emil Krupp.

The mill burned down and was rebuilt only to have demand wane and once again it was consumed by flames.

Gordon, who died of cancer the prior summer, had long been a resident and public servant in Bucoda, working in the fire department and on the town council.

[18] The South Sound Speedway, a Figure 8 racetrack, is northwest of the downtown area.

Bucoda, Washington is the setting of episode 97 "We All Ignore the Pit" of the horror podcast The Magnus Archives.

[19] A small scene for the independent movie, The Mountain, with Jeff Goldblum, was filmed at a restaurant in the town.