Explore Wilton, Iowa, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Wilton, Iowa. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Iowa or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Wilton.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Wilton |
| State | Iowa (IA) |
| County | Muscatine County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.588915 |
| Longitude | -91.016818 |
| Population | 2,924 |
| Density | 549.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 52778 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| County Seat | Muscatine |
| School District | Wilton Community School District |
Wilton emerges from the vast, planar expanse of eastern Iowa as a quiet intersection of iron rails and horizon-stretching fields. It lies 11.4 miles north of Muscatine, IA (from Muscatine, IA: bearing 7°T), and is situated 12.8 miles east of West Liberty. The landscape surrounding Wilton belongs to the ancient, deep-soiled prairie, where the earth is partitioned into a meticulous geometry of corn and soybean rows that ripple under the shifting light of a cloud-dappled sky. Water finds its way through this terrain in modest, unassuming currents, with Mud Creek tracing a subtle path just a mile from the center, while the quiet, reflective surface of Wiese Slough waits six miles away to catch the orange glow of the setting sun. At the heart of the settlement, Elder Park offers a modest reach of greenery where the air carries the dry, sweet scent of disturbed soil and the persistent, low-frequency hum of a region defined by its agricultural labor.
Railroads anchored the identity of Wilton long ago, transforming a simple crossing into a place where the steady rhythm of freight and commerce became the heartbeat of the local economy. The architecture remains grounded in this legacy, with brick facades and sturdy, unornamented structures that reflect a pragmatic, Midwestern character born of German and Scandinavian roots. While the larger academic centers of the state influence the intellectual climate of the surrounding region, Wilton maintains a focus on the tangible, favoring a pace of life dictated by the seasons and the cycle of the harvest. Today, the town remains a point of stillness, a place where the horizon is never obstructed and the daily life of its inhabitants is measured by the steady, unshowy work of maintaining a life upon the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wilton, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.588915, -91.016818. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Wilton includes the ZIP code (52778), telephone area code (712), county seat of Muscatine County (Muscatine), and school district assignment (Wilton Community School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |