Stockton is a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.

[6] It was established after the Minnesota Northwestern Railroad decided to build a station in Section 2 of Stockton Township in 1886, which through mergers later became named the Chicago Great Western Railway.

[7] What is now Front Street in Stockton was then a dirt road which served as the main thoroughfare to Lena.

Stockton is not part of the Driftless Area, but is the first municipality found outside of it, coming from western Jo Daviess County.

One climbs out of the valley of the Upper Mississippi River and finds a high point in Stockton.

This ridge line continues for 3 miles to the northwest to Benton Mound (1,204 ft; 367 m ), the second highest peak in Illinois.