According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.9 square miles (20 km2), all land.

Stallings was incorporated as a town in 1975, but its history dates back to the early 1900s when Matthew Thomas Stallings, a prominent farmer and merchant who lived near Harrisburg, moved to Union County and bought 200 acres of land on the Mecklenburg County line - northwest of Indian Trail.

Newspaper articles from that time note that Mr. Stallings "began to improve his holdings with a view to building up an important settlement and encouraging enterprise and industry in his vicinity."

An undated article by L. W. Harkey states: “Every year after crops were laid by, Mr. Stallings would have a regular picnic long about August.

Lemonade and cold drinks were set out under the big oak tree back of the store.” A 1912 newspaper article stated: "there was a good school in operation with about 75 pupils enrolled and some twenty families settled on the original purchase.

The Seaboard Air Line has a regular station there, named Stallings, and all prospects bid fair to make this locality of much future importance.

Mr. Stallings will be glad to offer special inducements to manufacturers or others desiring sites for plants or permanent homes."

Stallings Methodist Church was started circa 1911, largely through the efforts of P. D. and Margaret Drye, with the first pastor being Rev.

It was always known as the Country Store, furnishing the community with groceries, feed, and notions during the day, and serving as a gathering place in the evenings.

From the turn of the century until the Great Depression of the 1930s, Indian Trail and Stallings were trading centers for cotton farmers as far away as Wesley Chapel to the south and Stewart's Mill to the north."

The giant Bradford watermelons grew well in the sandy soil and were sold in Charlotte by the truckloads or shipped to New York by rail.

It appeared that Mr. M. T. Stallings' 1912 prediction that "all prospects bid fair to make this locality of much future importance" was accurate.

Goose Creek begins along the northeastern boundary of current Mecklenburg County, and flows southeasterly to the Rocky River.

Craftsmen who had just completed Philadelphia Presbyterian Church in Mint Hill, built Blair's' Mill, as it was called then, as a four-story wooden structure.

It quoted Dr. Sam Stevens describing the four- story wooden structure as one of immense hewed logs mortised and keyed with pins and built in 1826.

Hood continued in his article to describe the mill in its earlier days, “even in colonial days the scene, near the old stage coach line, must have been a community gathering place, or mustering ground for the local militia and perhaps was the scene of a large country store and water mill long before the present old building was erected.”[citation needed] Newton Pyron, a local resident, recounts how he “attended the exhibition of John Robinson's shows on the yard of this old mill soon after the Civil War and got a free ticket 50 years later when the show came back to Charlotte.” The John Robinson's shows were later acquired by, and are now known as, the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.

For many generations farmers from miles around found their way to the Steven's water mill with their corn and wheat on men's backs, on mules, on ox carts, sleds, and later by motor vehicle.”[citation needed] Although the small piece of land that contains the ruins of the mill is now part of a neighboring town,[which?]

Stevens Creek, which fed the mill, still runs through the Divide Golf Course and across Interstate 485 into Mecklenburg County.

Other events to bring the community together include an Easter egg hunt, Earth Day celebrations, a music festival, and a Christmas tree lighting.