Mabton is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States.

[5] 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 original inhabitants were the Yakama people, who were forced 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 house on the site.

Mabton was named by Charlie Sandburg, a Swedish railworker, who proposed the name "Mabletown" for the wife (or daughter) of a railroad official who had spoken kind words to track workers during an inspection.

The Mabton School District has been the repeated beneficiary of grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: A small ranch near Mabton was home to the first confirmed case of mad cow disease in the United States on December 23, 2003,[8] later confirmed to be a cow of Canadian origin imported to the U.S.[9] Mabton is located at the east end of the Yakama Indian Reservation and south of the Yakima River near Sunnyside and Grandview.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.80 square miles (2.07 km2), all of it land.

7.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In a space of about 1,260 sq ft (117 m2) it has over 5,000 volumes of hardback books, over 2000 paperbacks, and 26 magazine subscriptions.