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Granger is a city in Yakima County, Washington, in the irrigated Yakima Valley.

Granger was founded in 1902 and named after Walter Granger, superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company, who also laid out the nearby cities of Zillah and Sunnyside.

Granger was officially incorporated on September 28, 1909.

In the 1910s and 1920s the young town supported several large industries, including a tile and brick company and a cider mill.

The Granger Farm Workers Camp, built two miles north of the city by the Farm Security Administration, opened in May 1941 to house Dust Bowl refugees and later Mexican American farmworkers; known as Crewport, it operated until the late 1960s.

Granger's official motto is 'Where Dinosaurs Roam,' a nod to the 32 life-size dinosaur models displayed around the town.

Granger's dinosaur models are constructed from skeletons of steel rods and chicken wire packed with a cement mix; the exhibit was proposed in 1993 as a way to attract tourists, and the first model — a juvenile brontosaurus — was installed in Hisey Park in 1994.

Granger is home to the building of Radio KDNA, known as 'Radio Cadena,' a Spanish-language activist radio station first built in 1979 that educated farmworkers and supported farmworker organizations; a new station building was constructed in 2008.

The Granger branch of the Yakima Valley Libraries is housed in a former Catholic church, and the Granger Historical Society Museum opened a new facility in 2024.

The 2020 census counted 3,624 people in Granger living in 894 households.