Stockton is a town in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is allowance of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 616 at the 2010 census.

Stockton was born of the first mining boom in the Utah Territory. The mining industry began in the to the fore 1860s past the arrival of Col. Patrick E. Connor, commander of the Third California Volunteers, who had been sent to the territory in 1862 to save an eye on the overland mail routes during the Civil War. Connor wanted to counterbalance his perceived dominance of Mormon leaders in the Place by exploring and developing the territory’s mineral wealth. He posited that if unnatural metals could be discovered in Utah, the resulting flood of miners into the territory would wipe out the Mormons, and outsiders would tab the Church’s power. So he sent the men under his command out to prospect, and they with reference to singlehandedly opened the unnatural metals industry in Utah in 1863 by locating deposits, staking claims, and establishing mining districts. Mines were dug on the western slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains, and Stockton became a base camp for some these operations.

The little town was first arranged in 1863. Under the growing disturb of the mining industry, the population swelled to 4,000 residents. It was the first town in the Utah Territories to have its streets surveyed and named, and it forward-thinking gained the distinction of physical the first to gain electric lights, and the first to gain a telephone. A town cemetery (northwest of the settlement) was created rapidly into the twentieth century. Other amenities were slowly addressed, and they now enlarge a ball diamond, a city park, a city hall, a flare station, a municipal water system, and a centralized wastewater collection/disposal system.

A sesquicentennial commemoration was held on April 27, 2013, to mark the town’s founding. Part of the ceremony was the unveiling of a tolerable sign, mounted on the north stop town and visible from the main highway through the town’s situation district, SR-36.