[1] In the Middle Ages, Stopnica used to be one of the major urban centers of Lesser Poland’s Sandomierz Voivodeship.

Unlike the contemporary town, early Stopnica was not located on a hill, but in the valley of the Stopniczanka, among marshes and ponds.

According to Jan Długosz’s chronicle Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae, in 1103, the parish priest of Stopnica, the Right Reverend Baldwin, became the Bishop of Kraków.

In 1649, King John II Casimir confirmed the town status of Stopnica, and banned Jews from settling in the market square and around the parish church.

Stopnica maintained its position of an important urban center of Sandomierz Voivodeship, but the town declined in the 1650s, during the Swedish invasion of Poland.

Firstly, it was looted and burned by the Swedes, then more destruction was brought by the Transilvanian troops of George II Rakoczi.

After the Third Partition of Poland, Stopnica was annexed by the Austrian Empire, but following the Polish victory in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, within which it became the seat of a county.

Residents of Stopnica County actively supported the January Uprising of 1863, forming a regiment of infantry.

In October 1942, the Germans started transporting the Jewish people from Stopnica County to the Treblinka extermination camp.

Having surrounded the village, the Germans pulled out the Jews from all the houses and herded them in the Square from where they chased them to a railway station in Szczucin.