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 heritage 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 following he and other man shot each supplementary to death upon Jan. 21, 1895. The town was originally named “Goosetown” in his honor, however, after the local blacksmith’s wife complained that she would never rouse somewhere past such a silly name, the town was christened “Wilbur” in 1889.

It had been located upon the stage line in the midst of Davenport and the Mines in northern Washington and like 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 introduction of the railroad higher that year, Wilbur’s buildup increased suddenly with the instigation of better hotels, a bank, a lumber mill and countless new businesses. After several fruitless 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 flare in October 1891 caused damage to the town, killing 4.

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