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Wildwood

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ402416
Source-derived summary

Wildwood and Wild Wood may refer to:

Populated places

Australia

Wildwood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne

Canada

Wildwood, Alberta, a hamlet

Wildwood, Calgary, Alberta, a neighborhood

Wildwood, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Wildwood Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba

United States

Wildwood, California

Lake Wildwood, California

Wildwood, Florida

Wildwood, Georgia

Wildwood, Illinois

Wildwood, Chicago, Illinois

Wildwood, Indiana

Wildwood, Kentucky

Wildwood, Michigan, an unincorporated community

Wildwood, Charlevoix County, Michigan, an unincorporated community

Wildwood, Cheboygan County, Michigan, an unincorporated community

Wildwood, Minnesota

Wildwood, Missouri

Wildwood, New Hampshire, a former village

Wildwood, New Jersey

Wildwood, Oregon, in Clackamas County

Wildwood, Oregon, in Lane County

Wildwood, Pennsylvania

Wildwood, Roanoke, Virginia

Wildwood, Washington

Wildwood, Wisconsin

Parks and recreation areas

Wildwood Discovery Park, a wildlife park in Kent, England

Wildwood Park for the Arts, an arts venue and gardens in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Wildwood Preserve Metropark, Toledo, Ohio, United States

Wildwood Recreation Site, Wildwood, Clackamas County, Oregon

Wildwood Regional Park, a park in Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Wildwood State Park, Long Island, New York, United States

Buildings in the United States

Wildwood Correctional Complex, a prison complex near Kenai, Alaska

Wildwood (Hot Springs, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Arkansas

Wildwood School, a school in Los Angeles, California

Wildwood Farm, Skylight, Kentucky, listed on the NRHP in Kentucky

Wildwood Plantation House, Jackson, Louisiana, listed on the NRHP in Louisiana

Wildwood Cottage, Harrisville, New Hampshire

Wildwood (Semora, North Carolina), a historic home

Wildwood House (Ferguson, Missouri), a style house

Wildwood Hall, Newbury, Vermont, listed on the NRHP in Vermont

Wildwood Park Elementary, a school in Puyallup, Washington

Wildwood (Beckley, West Virginia), a historic home

Wild Wood High School (disambiguation), multiple schools

Types of landscape

British wildwood, an ancient natural landscape of post-ice age Britain

Music

"The Church in the Wildwood", a song by William S. Pitts

Wild Wood, a solo record by Paul Weller

"Wildwood Flower", a traditional American folk song often associated with the Carter Family

Books

Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1, a children's fantasy novel by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis.

Under Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 2, a children's fantasy novel by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis.

Wildwood Imperium: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 3, a children's fantasy novel by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 371-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wildwood, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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