Alabama Gulf Coast · AL
Stockton
A delta community near the ancient mounds at Bottle Creek.
- Population
- 557 (2020 census)
- Post office
- 1837
- Nearby
- Bottle Creek Indian Mounds
Then
- Centuries ago
Mississippian people build the mounds at Bottle Creek, now a National Historic Landmark.
- 1809
Francis Stockton is appointed to pick a site for Baldwin County's first courthouse; the community likely takes his name.
- 1837
The post office opens, with mail by stagecoach from Montgomery.
- 1855
Steamboats begin carrying mail between Mobile, Stockton and Claiborne.
Now
Stockton is a small Baldwin County community on the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, with a seaplane base. The tide stations here sit on the Tensaw River landings upriver of Mobile Bay.
2 tide stations around Stockton
- Lower Bryant Landing1.1 mi
- Lower Hall Landing, Tensaw River12.4 mi