Wilbur is a town in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 884 at the 2010 census.

Just prior to the construction of the Central Washington Railroad extraction in 1889, no towns existed west of Davenport in Lincoln County. One place along the line, “Wild Goose Bill’s Ranch,” run by Samuel Wilbur Condit, was assigned a post office by the Federal government. Condit was 62 years outmoded and known throughout the region as Wild Goose Bill in the same way as he and substitute man shot each further to death on Jan. 21, 1895 Condit platted the town that bears his middle name “Wilbur,” though he didn’t have all to do with the naming. Goosetown was a consideration, until the blacksmith’s wife complained that she would never live in a place in imitation of such a silly name. Instead, the make known Wilbur was chosen by town surveyors.

It had been located upon the stage line amid Davenport and the Mines in northern Washington and in imitation of the speculation of the railroad arriving soon seemed a likely place for a town. The town grew in earnest and was platted in April 1889. With the coming on of the railroad difficult that year, Wilbur’s growth increased immediately with the foundation of bigger hotels, a bank, a lumber mill and countless further businesses. After several failed attempts to incorporate in 1889, Wilbur was officially incorporated on August 11, 1890. The boom had slowed by 1891 and came to a terminate with the Panic of 1893. A fire in October 1891 caused broken to the town, killing 4.

Wilbur was brought out of the difficult times of the 1890s during a record wheat harvest in 1897 which brought over $1,000,000 to circulation in the town. The construction of a road to Republic next a thriving mining camp in what was to become Ferry County was acknowledged to layer traffic to Wilbur, but the expected benefit never materialized. After a July 5, 1901 fire destroyed several city blocks, causing $155,000 in damage ($3.9 million in 2017 dollars), a water works was traditional in 1903. Wilbur was electrically lighted in October 1903 by the Wilbur Electric Company.

Wilbur gained news coverage in July 2007 therefore of crop circles found roughly 10 miles north of town, just off of Highway 2. The origin of these depressions in the wheat crop of local farmer Jim Llewellyn is unknown, and the phenomenon was covered by supplementary stations as well as newspapers. More crop circles were discovered in August 2009. See this link: On July 31, 2012, crop circles appeared for the third epoch in wheat fields close the town.