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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.

Wilder within Canyon County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Wilder 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,533
20201,597+64 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Snake River PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Canyon County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWilder$30,000no account filed
June 2023FloodWilder-Minor flooding was reported on Highway US-95 from Mile Post 0-35.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWilder-A trained spotter just west of Wilder reported large tree branches down due to thunderstorm outflow winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWilder-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.

Every storm recorded in Canyon County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Allendale2.0 miles13
Greenleaf5.1 miles13
Central Cove5.5 miles13
Roswell5.7 miles13
Notus6.8 miles13
Doles6.8 miles13
Rookstool Corner7.7 miles12
Parma7.7 miles12

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 WilderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515350The 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.