Explore Wilder, Idaho, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Wilder, Idaho. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Idaho or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Wilder.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Wilder |
| State | Idaho (ID) |
| County | Canyon County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Boise) |
| Latitude | 43.676549 |
| Longitude | -116.911816 |
| Population | 1,597 |
| Density | 862.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 83676 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| County Seat | Caldwell |
| School District | Wilder School District 133 |
Wilder stretches across the expansive, sun-bleached plains where the Golden Gate Canal carves a steady, silver line through the dust of the high desert. It lies 11.3 miles west of Caldwell, ID (from Caldwell, ID: bearing 275°T), and is situated 4.2 miles north-northeast of Homedale. Beyond the irrigation ditches, the horizon is held by the distant, muted silhouettes of the Chalk Hills, standing as silent sentinels against a sky that seems to possess an infinite, aching depth. Life here moves in concert with the shifting intensity of the light, which turns the sagebrush into a sea of muted gray and green during the heat of the day, only to soften into a bruised purple as the sun dips low. At Centennial Park, the stillness is broken only by the occasional rustle of dry grasses, grounding the visitor in a landscape that feels both vast and intimately tethered to the earth.
Agriculture remains the pulse of Wilder, sustaining a rhythm dictated by the harvest and the seasonal irrigation that breathes life into the surrounding fields. The legacy of those who first broke this stubborn soil lingers in the methodical arrangement of the orchards and the rows of crops that stretch toward the edges of Christian Gulch. Local industry relies on the endurance of a population that understands the value of a long day’s labor under a relentless, clear sun. While Lake Lowell lies eleven miles away, its presence is felt in the collective consciousness of a region defined by its relationship to water and the scarcity of it. In the quiet streets of Wilder, the atmosphere is one of pragmatic resilience, where the quietude of the plains provides a backdrop for a community that measures its progress in the steady growth of its fields and the slow, deliberate passing of the seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wilder, Idaho. Coordinates: 43.676549, -116.911816. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Wilder includes the ZIP code (83676), telephone area code (208), county seat of Canyon County (Caldwell), and school district assignment (Wilder School District 133).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |