Wilton, Iowa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

• Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad-Wilton Depotlisted 1988
• Leith, Doctor Alexander R. (A.R.) and Louisa J., Houselisted 2020
• Nicolaus, Henry E. and Ella M. (Knott), Houselisted 2017
• Wilton Candy Kitchenlisted 1993
• Wilton Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2016

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1891 USGS Wilton Junction quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1901 USGS Stanwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Wilton Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Iowa City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Wilton quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wilton between 2011 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• South Towne Park
• Moscow
• Atalissa
• Summit
• Pleasant Prairie
• Sweetland Center

Every fire recorded in Muscatine County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wilton: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Muscatine County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Muscatine County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465185. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.