Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Stockertown, PA

Stockertown is a small borough in Northampton County, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, covering just one square mile.

Stockertown takes its name from the Stocker family, Swiss settlers who farmed the land in the late 1700s; by 1845 the village was known as Stockersville.

Residents petitioned for borough status in late 1900, and Stockertown's borough government was organized early in 1901.

Stockertown's population was 919 at the 2020 census, little changed from 927 in 2010.

At the 2000 census the borough had just 687 residents in 279 households, before its population jumped by about a third during the 2000s.

For a borough of fewer than 1,000 people, Stockertown carries outsized industry - the Hercules Cement plant, Polymer Products, and Praxair all operate there.

The cement plant was built in 1906 as the Nazareth Works of the Atlantic Portland Cement Company, took the Hercules Cement name in 1916, and has been owned by Buzzi Unicem since 2008.

Limestone belts under the borough make it prone to sinkholes, a problem that forced the closure of the Bushkill Street bridge over Bushkill Creek.

Pennsylvania Route 33, the Lehigh Valley's north-south freeway, cuts through Stockertown - its section of the highway opened in 1972 - while Route 191 follows Main Street.

Stockertown students attend the Nazareth Area School District and Nazareth Area High School.