Wilton Candy Kitchen

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Wilton Candy Kitchen is a combination ice cream parlor, soda fountain and confectionery store located in Wilton, Iowa, United States. The two-story wood-frame building has a gable roof that is obstructed on the main facade by a false front.”
Wikipedia article Wilton Candy Kitchen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Muscatine County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 310 Cedar St., Wilton, 52778
When was it listed? January 1993
Category. building
Township. Wilton township
National Register reference number. 92001742 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

13 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wilton Candy Kitchen 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 August 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2020	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2015	Smoking	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Muscatine County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wilton Candy Kitchen: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Atalissa Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Mc Killip Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Muscatine County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton, the town this property stands in, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$350,000	On Trail Avenue
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$60,000	no account filed
June 2010	Flash Flood	Wilton	$10,000	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of Mud Creek near Wilton.
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Wilton	$10,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$5,000	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Wilton	$2,000	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$1,000	Several large tree limbs downed. Reported by Newspaper.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Windows were broken out of a home, and table blown off a porch.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Estimated thunderstorm wind gust.
April 2023	Hail	Wilton	-	A public report of quarter size hail.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Trained spotter reported thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Several tree branches blown down in Wilton.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	A trained spotter reported two large trees down. The time of the event was estimated by radar.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed in Wilton, IA at 310 pm May 25.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 50 to 60 mph blew down some branches on the northwest side of Wilton, IA around 502 pm June 27.
May 1995	Tornado (F1)	Wilton	-	Numerous small and brief tornadoes touched down west of Muscatine at this time. Some vehicles were damaged by hail, but no damage was caused by the tornadoes.
May 2024	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muscatine County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad-Wilton Depot	0.1 miles	1988
Wilton Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	2016
Nicolaus, Henry E. and Ella M. (Knott), House	0.1 miles	2017
Leith, Doctor Alexander R. (A.R.) and Louisa J., House	0.2 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001742 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Muscatine County	All 40 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.