Wilder, Idaho
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wilder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83676. The Survey maps it on the Wilder quadrangle. 1,597 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,428 feet above sea level.
On record in Wilder
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
George Obendorf Gothic Arch Truss Barnlisted 1999
Peckham Barnlisted 1982- Ellen Houlder Farmlisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresWilder grew from 1,533 to 1,597 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,533 | |
| 2020 | 1,597 | +64 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1898 USGS Nampa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Wilder quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Boise quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wilder: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Snake River Placers | Gold | Past Producer | Placer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilder in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilder | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Flood | Wilder | - | Minor flooding was reported on Highway US-95 from Mile Post 0-35. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilder | - | A trained spotter just west of Wilder reported large tree branches down due to thunderstorm outflow winds. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilder | - | A trained spotter reported 4 inch tree branches down on numerous trees from thunderstorm gusts. Lightning struck a fence post causing the post to catch on fire. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allendale | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Greenleaf | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Central Cove | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Roswell | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Notus | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Doles | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Rookstool Corner | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Parma | 7.7 miles | 12 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Wilder | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1515350 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398357. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





