In Croatia, Štola families are Croats (from Valpovo ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Valpovo.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Štola live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Zelcin (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.