Stockton, Minnesota
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stockton City. It lies in ZIP code area 55987. It stands on Stockton Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rollingstone quadrangle. 809 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.
On record in Stockton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Trinity Episcopal Churchlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresStockton grew from 697 to 809 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 | 697 | |
| 2020 | 809 | +112 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1932 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Cochrane quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Rollingstone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
48 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Stockton between 1993 and 2010, burning about 85 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 May 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 May 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stockton: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biesanz Winona Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Winona Aggregate Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bronk Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Kohner Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Winona Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Winona Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Stockton | $22,000,000 | Flash flooding hit all the creeks and drainage areas hard that begin near the Interstate 90 area in Winona County. Garvin Brook and other creeks that flow into Stockton became terrain-changing flowages that washed out numerous roads, created massive mudslides, took out bridges, damaged railroad tracks, and washed away some homes.||Most homes in Stockton had severe water damage as flood waters roared through town.||Erosion problems were also noted south of Interstate 90 in the Hart area. Many roads, including Highway 43, were closed for several days. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Stockton | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Stockton | $108,000 | Runoff from heavy rain pushed Garvin Creek out of its banks around Stockton. Debris caught in the flood waters clogged culverts where the creek passes under County Road 23 causing enough dirt to be eroded that a portion of the road collapsed. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $30,000 | Farm outbuildings sustained wind damage near Stockton. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Stockton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Stockton | $2,000 | A short-lived tornado was on the ground for about two minutes northeast of Stockton. The tornado only produced some minor tree damage. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down across U.S. Highway 14 between Stockton and Winona. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Stockton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Stockton | - | Trained spotter reported penny sized hail in Stockton. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Stockton | - | Public reported half dollar sized hail near Stockton. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Stockton | - | Law enforcement reported ping pong ball sized hail in Stockton. |
| May 2022 | Heavy Rain | Stockton | - | In Stockton, 3.54 inches of rain fell. |
| May 2022 | Heavy Rain | Stockton | - | Just west of Stockton, 3.41 inches of rain fell. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Stockton | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported in Stockton. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | An estimated 60 miles per hour wind gust occurred four miles southwest of Winona. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodview | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Minnesota City | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Rollingstone | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lewiston | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wyattville | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wilson | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Winona | 7.1 miles | 18 | |
| Bethany | 7.5 miles | 14 |
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 Q2227650 | 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 652652. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.







