About Stockton
Stockton is the county seat of Rooks County Kansas. It is a small rural community with a great sense of involvement and pride. There are many local amenities such as: a grocery store/deli, 3 gas stations/convenience stores, local restaurants & bakery, public swimming pool, and fitness center. A fabulous medical clinic was newly constructed years ago.
Stockton was founded in 1872. A large share of the first settlers were cattle dealers, or stockmen, and they named their new home Stocktown, or as it soon became Stockton. Stockton was incorporated as a city in 1879.
Stockton is located on the natural trail up the valley of the South Solomon River and where the military supply trail from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Hays, Kansas, crossed the South Solomon River. Stockton survived & grew during the thirteen years from founding until the arrival of the railroad in 1885.
Stockton was once a sundown town, where African Americans living in Nicodemus were not welcome after dark.