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Wilton, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilton Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54670. It stands on Sleighton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilton quadrangle. 532 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Wilton within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilton grew from 504 to 532 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010504
2020532+28 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wilton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 May 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources12
12 May 2020Recreation and ceremony3.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11
5 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources08
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources12
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources10
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources918
3 December 2020Debris and open burning1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arthur Overgaard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Porpus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWilton$40,000A brand new shed was destroyed near Wilton.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWilton$30,000Trees were blown down in Wilton. At least one tree landed on a car, others fell on houses and the roof of a shed was destroyed by a tree that fell on it. Shingles were also blown off a garage.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWilton$20,000Trees were blown down south of Wilton. The porch on a house was severely damaged and a small shed was destroyed by the downed trees.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWilton$15,000The public reported tree branches and power lines down northeast of Wilton.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWilton$8,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWilton$5,000Trees were blown down on power lines causing power outages in Wilton.
August 2021Tornado (EF1)Wilton$3,000An EF1 tornado formed north of Wilton and move east for three miles before dissipating west of Clifton. Damage was limited to trees and crops.
September 2010FloodWilton$2,000Minor washouts occurred on County Roads U and Z.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWilton$2,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWilton$2,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWilton$500A trained spotter reported a fifteen inch diameter tree down on Highway 131.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindWilton$500no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWilton$250Trees were blown down in Wilton.
May 2021HailWilton-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported just east of Ontario.
July 2009HailWilton-There was dime and nickel size hail, but not enough to cover the ground.
July 2009HailWilton-no account filed
July 2009HailWilton-no account filed
September 1997HailWilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Norwalk5.1 miles11
Hoffman Corners5.3 miles13
Oil City5.4 miles11
Saint Marys8.5 miles11
Kendall8.6 miles13
Jacksonville9.7 miles13
Glendale9.9 miles13
Clifton10.1 miles13

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on WiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2419902The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1576838. 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.