Stockton, Iowa
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Fulton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52769. The Survey maps it on the Walcott quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStockton fell from 197 to 176 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 197 | |
| 2020 | 176 | -21 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1890 USGS Durant quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Durant quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Rock Island quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1910 USGS Rock Island quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Walcott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Walcott quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Stockton between 2006 and 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2930 200TH ST., IA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $1,500 | Estimated gust based on 83% of KDVN 88D winds of 66 knots (76 mph) at 600 AGL. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Stockton | - | Creeks out of their banks and trees washing out across road. Water in basements in Durant. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Stockton | - | A public report of quarter hail amongst many smaller pieces of hail. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | A trained spotter reported several 5 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed about 2 miles west of Walcott, IA at 140 am CDT May 21. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Stockton | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding along Mud Creek near Stockton, IA during the evening of August 27. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Stockton | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of parts of Muscatine County during the early morning hours of June 13. The flood waters forced the closure of the intersection of 20th Avenue and 200th Street just north of Stockton, IA. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | Straight line winds flattened two large steel towers that hold the high voltage power lines of Mid American Energy Company. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Prairie | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| South Towne Park | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Wilton | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Pine Mills (historical) | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| New Era | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Sweetland Center | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Midway Beach | 9.3 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Stockton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q655270 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 462002. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









