About Stoney Creek and its history
The community of Stoney Creek is located on the south shore of western Lake Ontario, into which feed the watercourse of Stoney Creek as well as several other minor streams. The historic area, known as the "Old Town", exists below the Niagara Escarpment. In 1974 the old town of Stoney Creek merged with Saltfleet Township and in 1984 Stoney Creek became a city.

Though residential growth exploded, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s in the lower city and on the west mountain in the 1990s and 2000s, most of the land mass of Stoney Creek remains agricultural. The communities of Elfrida, Fruitland, Tapleytown, Tweedside, Vinemount, and Winona serve as distinct reminders of the agricultural legacy of Stoney Creek and Saltfleet township.

The city of Stoney Creek lost its independent status in 2000 as the Provincial Government formally merged Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Glanbrook, Dundas, Flamborough and Hamilton into the new city of Hamilton.