История и особенности города Стакертаун, Пенсильвания.

Since 2006, Forks Township has been contracted to provide fire services to the borough, and the borough maintains its own police department. It is located in Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, and in Pennsylvania's 137th (State House of Representatives) and 18th (State Senate) Legislative Districts.

Stockertown was named for the Stockers, a Swiss family who settled on the land in the late 18th century. The post village was referred to as Stockersville as of 1845, and described as a very fertile area. In late 1900, by which time the village was being called Stockertown, a group of the village's citizens petitioned Northampton County Court to grant the community the status of a borough. That petition was granted and, early in 1901, the borough government was organized. In 1906, a cement plant, which later became Hercules Cement, was constructed as The Nazareth Works of Atlantic Portland Cement Company. It acquired the name of Hercules Cement Company in 1916 after its holdings after Atlantic Portland Cement filed for bankruptcy. It has changed owners many times through mergers, and as of 2008 is owned by Buzzi Unicem. Liberty Hose Fire Company #1 formed in 1922, and the borough bought their first firetruck in 1925. After World War II, Liberty Hose opted to build a memorial in honor of the war's veterans. The building became the borough's Memorial Hall. In the late 1990s, Liberty Hose moved from its original building on Main Street to a new facility along State Street. This building is now the home to Stockertown's police offices and other emergency vehicles. In 2006, Liberty Hose Fire Company was disbanded. The freeway now known as Route 33, which runs through Stockertown, began construction in 1959 from Wind Gap to Saylorsburg. Meetings were first held with residents of Stockertown in the mid 1960s, and the Stockertown portion of the highway was constructed in 1971, opening in 1972.

Stockertown is located at (40.754064, 75.264775). According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.0 square miles (3 km2), of which 1.0 square miles (3 km2) is land and 0.99% is water. Belts of limestone lie under a part of the borough that borders Palmer Township and the nearby borough of Tatamy. This along with Hercules Cement's nearby quarrying makes these areas prone to sinkholes, (see Karst Topography) and led to the closure of a bridge that carried Bushkill Street, a state road, over the Bushkill Creek. This bridge remains closed as of 2018.

Stockertown is served by the Nazareth Area School District. High school students attend Nazareth Area High School in Nazareth.

As of 2022, there were 7.34 mile (12 km) of public roads in Stockertown, of which 2.95 mile (5 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 4.39 mile (7 km) were maintained by the borough. Pennsylvania Route 33 is the main highway serving Stockertown. It follows a northwest southeast alignment across the southwestern portion of the borough. Pennsylvania Route 191 also traverses the borough, following a north south route via Industrial Boulevard and Main Street.

Stockertown is home to a packed cinder rail trail, which, once fully developed, is slated to link the Plainfield Township Trail and the Palmer Bikeway. The existing trail is about a mile long, starting at Sherman Metzgar Park, and extending to a parking area along Main Street at the North edge of the borough (Belfast Junction). A missing link of the trail, which is still in the planning stages, would be a major step towards a regional trail system by connecting Stockertown and Tatamy. Another proposed trail would extend from the Northern hub of the Stockertown Rail Trail to Jacobsburg State Park, adding connections to Bushkill Township.