Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2207
Land area (2000): 2.342942 sq. miles (6.068192 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005296 sq. miles (0.013717 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.348238 sq. miles (6.081909 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86140
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 44.249712 N, 116.967799 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83672
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Weiser
Wikipedia
Weiser is the name of two towns and a river in the United States:
- Weiser, Idaho
- Weiser Township, North Dakota
- Weiser River
Several individuals have the surname Weiser:
- Conrad Weiser, German pioneer
- Grethe Weiser, German actress
- Johann Conrad Weiser, Sr., German Palatine
- Mark Weiser, chief scientist of Xerox PARC
- Malbim (Meïr Löb ben Jehiel Michel Weiser), Russian rabbi
- Mitchell Weiser, German footballer
- Peter M. Weiser, member of the Corps of Discovery
- Ronald Weiser, American Diplomat
- Sarah Banet-Weiser, American academic and author
There is also a film by that name:
- Weiser, a film directed by Wojciech Marczewski (2001)
There is a book publisher by that name:
- Red Wheel Weiser Conari, a publisher previously known as Weiser or Samuel Weiser, Inc from 1956 to 2000
There is a door lock manufacturer by that name:
- Weiser Lock, begun in 1904
Usage examples of "weiser".
They park the car off Weiser Avenue and meet the girls in front of a Chinese restaurant.
They’re on Weiser Street, heading toward the great sunflower, dead in day.
A half-hour ago, waiting for the bus on Weiser Street, he priced a set in the window of the Chords ‘n’ Records music store.
Up Summer one block, then down Youngquist, a street parallel to Weiser on the north, a street of brick tenements and leftover business places, shoe-repair nooks smelling secretively of leather, darkened candy stores, insurance agencies with photographs of tornado damage in the windows, real-estate offices lettered in gold, a bookshop.
He wandered up to Weiser Street and looked down at all the lights and the great sunflower and couldn’t see a bus and kept walking, over to the south side, and became afraid of getting knifed and robbed and went into a low-looking hotel and bought a room.
No, what kept him in the city despite the increasing twisting inside that told him something was wrong back home, what kept him walking through the cold air breathed from the doors of movie houses and up and down between counters of perfumed lingerie thinking of all the delicate ass these veils would flavor the little tits to be tucked into these cups and jewelry and salted nuts poor old Jan and up into the park along paths he walked once with Ruth to watch from under a horse-chestnut tree five mangy kids play cat with a tennis ball and a broomstick and then finally back down Weiser to the drugstore he called from, what kept him walking was the idea that somewhere he’d find an opening.
A young couple named Natalie Jeremijenko and Dalton Conley recently renamed their four-year-old son Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles Jeremijenko-Conley.