 The town of Thorp is east of Seattle, northwest of Ellensburg, and southeast of Cle Elum.It is located at the narrow west end of the Kittitas Valley, where high elevation forests of the Cascade Range give way to cattle ranches surrounded by farmlands noted for timothy hay, alfalfa, vegetables, and fruit production.Thorp is named for Fielden Mortimer Thorp, recognized as the first permanent white settler in the Kittitas Valley.