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Stockton Today. Stockton is the County seat for San Joaquin County. The City of Stockton is one of California's fastest growing communities. Stockton is currently the 13th largest city in California with a dynamic, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural population of about 300,000.
Fort Stockton, Texas, in Pecos county, is 72 miles SW of Odessa, Texas (center to center) and 221 miles E of El Paso, Texas. As of the 2000 census, 7,846 people lived in Fort Stockton. Fort Stockton History. The community now known as Fort Stockton developed around Comanche Springs, one of the largest springs in Texas. It was also close to a 19th century military fort which was named after Robert Field Stockton. A few years after the Civil War started, the army rebuilt the fort to protect travelers and the local people.