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Brady is an unincorporated census-designated place in Grays Harbor County, Washington, located in the Chehalis River valley between Montesano to the west and Satsop to the east.

The Chehalis River valley south of Brady was the first part of the area settled by non-Native families, beginning with Andrew Jackson Smith's 640-acre homestead in 1851, when the river was the only means of transportation in and out of the area.

Brady is named in honor of John Brady, an early settler in the Chehalis Valley whose farm lay about a mile north of the present community.

Brady first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2000 census, and the 2020 census counted 692 residents, up slightly from 676 in 2010 and 645 in 2000.

U.S. Route 12 runs through the southern part of Brady, leading 15 miles west to Aberdeen; the four-lane divided freeway through the Brady area was built in the mid-1960s, replacing the earlier two-lane Monte-Elma Road alignment.

Brady's own school, Olympic View School, was the social hub of the community until the Brady school district was consolidated with the Montesano School District in 1968, and Brady students are still served by the Montesano School District today.

Brady today has a grocery store, a Grange hall, and a fire station served by the Brady Volunteer Fire Department, but the community has never had a post office.

Former United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan Allan Mustard, who also chaired the OpenStreetMap Foundation, is a Brady resident.