White Salmon is a city in Klickitat County, Washington, United States.

White Salmon was first settled in 1852 by Erastus Joslyn and his wife.

Within the same year, the region was very rapidly and heavily settled by white immigrants making land claims.

[6] White Salmon's current city government includes Mayor Marla Keethler, first elected in 2019 and re-elected to a four-year term in November 2023.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.22 square miles (3.16 km2), all of it land.

At the 2010 census there were 2,224 people in 921 households, including 559 families, in the city.

There were 1,039 housing units at an average density of 851.6 per square mile (328.8/km2).

At the 2000 census there were 2,193 people in 887 households, including 590 families, in the city.