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Quincy is a city in Grant County, Washington, east of the Columbia River on State Route 28 and north of Interstate 90, whose motto is "Where Agriculture Meets Technology."

Quincy was founded as a railroad camp during construction of the Great Northern Railway in 1892 and was incorporated on March 27, 1907; it was named after Quincy, Illinois.

The arrival of irrigation water from the Grand Coulee Dam in 1952 transformed Quincy from a tiny rail town of 804 people in 1950 into a farming center that jumped to 3,269 residents by 1960.

The 2020 census counted 7,543 people in 2,304 households in Quincy, and 77.5 percent of residents identified as Hispanic or Latino.

Quincy's farmland grows potatoes, wheat, and timothy grass, with orchards and vineyards spreading through the Quincy Valley, and food processors rank among its largest employers.

Since 2007, technology companies including Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell, and Intuit have built large data centers around Quincy, drawn by abundant, cheap Grant County PUD hydroelectricity; Microsoft's Columbia Data Center, begun in 2006, has been described as the world's largest data center.

Quincy is one of the closest full-service towns to the Gorge Amphitheatre, and its population swells during concert season.

Nearby Crescent Bar on the Columbia River and Quincy Lake, a remnant of the temporary lakes formed by the Ice Age Missoula Floods, anchor the area's boating, fishing, and water-skiing recreation.

Every second Saturday in September, Quincy celebrates Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day with school-built floats, a farm-equipment parade, agricultural and geology tours, and a tractor pull.

Quincy has a cold semi-arid climate with only about 7.86 inches of precipitation a year at an elevation of about 1,303 feet.