Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Stockton, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 45014. The Survey maps it on the Greenhills quadrangle.

Stockton within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stockton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Stockton, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

In the county-history sources

17,301 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Fairfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Beginning at the bank of the Miami, on the eastern side, at the place where the south boundary line of the . county strikes the same; thence east with the southern boundary line of the county to the southeast corner of section No. 14 of the second township of the second entire range; thence north to the Great Miami River; thence importance led from Hamilton to Cincinnati via Springdale. The Symmes's Corner road was also of considerable consequence at an early day. The River road, as it was called, follows down the Miami on the east side, from Hamilton to the Colerain pike, with which it unites near the Venice bridge. The Miami Canal, treated in detail elsewhere, is the most important thoroughfare in the township excepting the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. It passes through a fertile tract of country.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Fairfield Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 433 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 433 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stockton between 1835 and 1975: 375 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)	1879	W. Douglass	Jones Station
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 433 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stockton: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$1,000	A large tree was downed.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$1,000	A large tree was uprooted.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockton	$1,000	A tree was downed.
April 2024	Hail	Stockton	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Stockton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jones (historical)	0.5 miles	16
Flockton	2.2 miles	15
Port Union	2.3 miles	15
Furmandale	2.3 miles	16
Athlone (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Indian Springs	2.6 miles	16
Rialto	2.8 miles	15
Augusta Hills	2.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049212. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.