According to the 1920 book, History of the Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of Lehigh, by the American Historical Association, supervised and revised by William J. Heller, the township was consummated by the courts in 1914, but the court case of Palmer School District v. Wilson School District indicates the township's formation occurred on February 10, 1913.

The first, Palmer School District v. Wilson School District, related to Wilson owing Palmer for a certain amount of indebtedness caused by the township's creation.

The township lost this case, but in an appeal to Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on May 22, 1917, then Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Walling ruled, "The assignments of error are overruled and the decree is affirmed at the cost of the appellant.

PA 248 follows Northampton Street along an east-west alignment through the center of the borough.

Students in grades nine through 12 attend Wilson Area High School in the borough.