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Stockton, Utah

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Tooele-Grantsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84071. It lies near Southport Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Stockton quadrangle. 621 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,118 feet above sea level.

Stockton within Tooele County

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Stockton grew from 616 to 621 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
2010616
2020621+5 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 22 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Stockton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,349 acres in total. 41 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Natural41
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Firearms and explosives use3
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeSILCOX
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIGFARM FIRE
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIDGE LINE
4 September 1993Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeRUSH LAKE
4 September 1993Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeSTOCKTON
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHOGANS ROAD
22 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPENNYS CONTROL BURN
2 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRAIL TIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Stockton: 35 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ArgentSilver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Argent MineLead, Silver, IronPast ProducerReplacement
Ben Harrison MineLead, Zinc, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Jarosite, Malachite, Sphalerite
Ben Harrison MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerReplacement
Calumet MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerReplacement
Galena King MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerUnderground
Honerine MineFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, ZincPast Producer1865
Honerine MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer1865
Morgan:S Warm SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Muscatine MineLead, ZincPast ProducerReplacement

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
August 2021FloodStockton$25,000A portion of Soldier Canyon Road was destroyed, and thus closed, due to flooding.
August 2024Flash FloodStockton$10,000The Tooele County emergency manager reported a debris flow from the Jacob City Fire burn scar on county roads near Soldier Creek. Utah Department of Transportation officials also reported mud and rock across state Route 36 following the Flash Flood Warning.
August 2023Flash FloodStockton$1,000Significant flow off of the Jacob City burn scar into Soldier Canyon and Soldier Creek. The road going up Soldier Canyon was closed. SR-36 was closed south of Stockton due to debris and flood waters starting to top the culvert on to SR-36.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStockton-A strong thunderstorm moved through the Tooele Valley, producing severe winds. Recorded wind gusts included 65 mph at South Mountain and the Great Salt Lake Marina, 62 mph at the Lake Point at I-80 sensor, and 59 mph at the Tooele City and Stockton Bar sensors.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindStockton-The South Mountain sensor recorded a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindStockton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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
Bauer1.3 miles22
Tad Park (historical)3.5 miles22
Tooele6.3 miles17
Angels Grove7.1 miles17
Rush Valley7.8 miles22
Ophir7.9 miles23
Saint John8.3 miles22
Lincoln9.5 miles17

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 Q483635The 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 1432990. 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.