Stapleton is a small unincorporated community in northern Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, with a population of 519.[1].

Later, the Hamm brothers of Chicago, IL convinced the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) to build a subsidiary line between Bay Minette and Foley.

[4] By 1905 this spur called the Bay Minette & Fort Morgan Railroad had penetrated the thirty-seven miles of dense Baldwin County pine forests with the town of Canby lying along the route.

The railroad was important to the local economy and early on the trains passed through Stapleton several times a day as they made their way to the southern end of the county and back.

Highway traffic also picked up as of 1936 when the only paved road in Baldwin County, other than a small strip in Bay Minette going from the courthouse to the railroad, was the stretch of US 31 coming in from Atmore and ending at Stapleton.