Wells, Nevada

Wells population, 2020 to 2024

Wells lost 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by -3.

Wells covers 6.90 square miles of land, for 180 people per square mile of land. The median Nevada place of 5,000+ has 1,876, so Wells is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wells is in

All of Wells's residents live in Elko County, which had 54,363 residents in 2024. Wells holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wells

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wells by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 89835. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Wells is

The Census internal point of Wells is at 41.113200, -114.953500. Carson City, the capital, is 287.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Elko, NV (20,822 people), 46.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is West Valley City, UT, 156.4 miles away.

Daylight in Wells

At 41.11° N, Wells gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wells

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nevada, measured between internal points. The closest is Elko, 46.5 miles away, with 20,822 people.