BlockWilder, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilder City. It lies in ZIP code area 56101. The Survey maps it on the Wilder quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWilder grew from 60 to 62 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 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 62 | +2 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Wilder quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Worthington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,829 words on this townshipAn Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Wilder City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Wilder is an incorporated village on the main line of the Omaha railroad, seven miles northeast of Heron Lake. It is located on section seven, Delafield township, near the north line of Jackson county. Here is a little town of perhaps two hundred inhabitants, in which are carried on several lines of business. It is situated on a slight elevation, sloping in all directions, and is surrounded by an excellent farming countr}-.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910.
The village of Wilder is about a quarter of a century old, but Wilder as a Jackson county place name was bestowed in 1871. During the month of June of that officials selected the site of the present village of Wilder as a station on the new line of road. The Jackson Kepublic of July 1, 1871, said of the selection of this point for a station :
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910.
The sidetrack was laid during the month of September, but no depot was? put up, and the railroad officials made no effort to found a town at that point. For a short time the station was known as Timber Lake, but in November it was officially designated Wilder, in honor of A. H. Wilder, who was connected with the new railroad. For fourteen vears Wilder was nothing but a name, and retained that only by virtue of the railroad company's time card.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Wilder City - it names this place 7 more 7 times.
Fires near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wilder between 1993 and 2015, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | TIMBER LAKE - THREAT |
| 28 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | TIMBER LAKE |
| 2 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | GREAT BEND TWP SECT 26 - PL ASSIST |
| 4 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 acres | Windom Wetland Management District | BLIXSETH |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wilder: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windom Caldwell Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
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 Q2227561 | 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 654141. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.