 The Muscatine County portion of Wilton is part of the Muscatine Micropolitan Statistical Area.The first settler to build a home in the area that was to be known as Wilton in the new state of Iowa (1846) was Mr. Christian Marolf who came in July 1849, and erected of a small log house opposite the German Lutheran church.When he built his home Mr. Marolf could only see one the home of Mr. Stearns just west of town on the south side of the Moscow road.