Molitor is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.

Among the hills are some flat areas with rims which were the bottoms of ice-walled lakes after the last glacier receded.

[6] The east side of the six mile (10 km) square that would become Molitor, which lies on the Fourth Principal Meridian, was first surveyed in May 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government.

Then in the winter of 1857 and 1858 another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and over frozen swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

in a gentle current Deep and narrow not well adapted for good motive power or mills.

[9]An 1880 map of central Wisconsin shows nothing of note in what would become Molitor except a patch of cranberries near the north fork of the Yellow River.

[11] By 1900, a road of some sort ran across much of the south end of the town, following the course of modern Keyes Avenue.

The northern half was unsettled yet, with Chippewa Lumber and Boom owning the largest portion, followed by the Wisconsin Central Railroad.

The map showed a logging dam on the Yellow River in Section 10 on land owned by the Shaw Tannery.

About 13.1% of families and 13.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.7% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.