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Wilton is a village in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 532 at the 2020 census. The village is located partially within the Town of Wilton and partially within the Town of Wellington.
Its first post office opened in 1857. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 504 to 532 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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What they wrote about Wilton in 1912
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History of Monroe County Wisconsin1912 · page 417Read the page →
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St. John the Baptist’s Church, Wilton, Wis. ‘‘The first Catholic family known to have lived in the territory now included in the parish of Wilton, was that of Anton Tomah, who located about the year 1852, some seven miles north of the present village of Wilton. There were no churches in this locality at that time, but mass was said once a month in a little town hall at Tomah, then a small village of fifty inhabitants, by Father Noyes, at that time resident priest at Mauston. About a year later a few
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History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, past and present1912 · page 849Read the page →
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Edward C. was the second child and obtained a good common school education, attending school until he was sixteen. He bought a farm of 195 acres in section thirty-two. Wilton township, where he lived about three years, and then bought 160 acres m section seventeen of Wilton township, which he still owns, lived here ten years and then bought a home in the village of Wilton in 1911, their present residence.
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History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, past and present1912 · page 875Read the page →
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Shultz & Son at Toraah: from 1880 to 1883 he engaged in merchandising at Tomah, and in the last named year came to Wilton and purchased 160 acres of land in Wilton township and engaged in farming until 1887; disposing of his farm he moved to the village of Wilton and managed a general store for T. L. Martin.
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History of Monroe County Wisconsin1912 · page 875Read the page →
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Shultz & Son at Tomah; from 1880 to 1883 he engaged in merehandising at Tomah, and in the last named year came to Wilton and purchased 160 acres of land in Wilton township and engaged in farming until 1887; disposing of his farm he moved to the village of Wilton and managed a general store for T. L. Martin.
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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