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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.

Stockton within Muscatine County

Population over time

2 figures

Stockton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010197
2020176-21 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2930 200TH ST., IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscatine County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStockton$1,500Estimated gust based on 83% of KDVN 88D winds of 66 knots (76 mph) at 600 AGL.
August 2025Flash FloodStockton-Creeks out of their banks and trees washing out across road. Water in basements in Durant.
April 2023HailStockton-A public report of quarter hail amongst many smaller pieces of hail.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindStockton-A trained spotter reported several 5 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindStockton-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed about 2 miles west of Walcott, IA at 140 am CDT May 21.
August 2009Flash FloodStockton-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding along Mud Creek near Stockton, IA during the evening of August 27.
June 2008Flash FloodStockton-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 2000Thunderstorm WindStockton-Straight line winds flattened two large steel towers that hold the high voltage power lines of Mid American Energy Company.
May 2017HailStockton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muscatine County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Petersburg4.1 miles15
Pleasant Prairie4.7 miles15
South Towne Park7.8 miles14
Wilton8.4 miles14
Pine Mills (historical)8.4 miles15
New Era8.8 miles15
Sweetland Center9.0 miles15
Midway Beach9.3 miles15

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 StocktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q655270The 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.