Davenport is a city located along the Mississippi River in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

Davenport is the county seat of and largest city in Scott County.

As of 2012, the mayor of Davenport is Bill Gluba.

Davenport is the largest of the Quad Cities.

Located approximately half way between Chicago and Des Moines, Davenport is on the border of Iowa and Illinois.

The Claim House ( Davenport, Iowa ) | Claim House was constructed by George L. Davenport, son of Colonel George Davenport, in 1832 or 1833 and is believed to be the oldest structure in the city.

Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.

Davenport is located approximately west of Chicago and east of the Iowa state capital of Des Moines.

Davenport is located on the banks of the Mississippi River and has a maximum depth of around and is wide where the Centennial Bridge crosses it.

An example of a building that is elevated or flood-proofed in Davenport is the Figge Art Museum.

Under the Köppen climate classification, Davenport is considered to have a humid continental climate ( Dfa ).

Average snowfall in Davenport is per year.

Flooding, however, is often a problem in Davenport due to the lack of a flood wall.

Duck Creek, a stream situated in Bettendorf and Davenport, is also vulnerable to flash flooding.

One of Davenport's oldest neighborhoods, the Neighborhoods of Davenport, Iowa # East neighborhoods | Village of East Davenport, is full of small specialty shops.

Also in central Davenport, the Vander Veer Park Historic District is a neighborhood anchored by Vander Veer Park, a large park with a botanical garden and a fountain.

The old Civil War parade grounds, in The Village of East Davenport (" The Village " for short ), have been turned into Lindsay Park, which is surrounded by small specialty shops.

She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".

The song is the only single from Teletubbies, making them a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom, and mostly a remix of the theme song from the hit Television programme performed by the series characters written by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport.

* Stockport Lacrosse Club is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester where they still play to this day.

* In Illinois and Iowa: three of the four Quad Cities — Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa — were formerly known as the Tri-Cities, before the inclusion of East Moline, Illinois and later, Bettendorf, Iowa

The first white settlement in the area now known as Davenport was in January 1839 when the U. S. military set up Fort Cummings as a place to negotiate with the Seminoles to end the Second Seminole War.

Plymouth's fourth high school building ( 1925 ), known as the Ward P. Davenport High School, was demolished after the Agnes Flood of 1972.

As early as 1815, Col. Samuel Tubbs and his sons excavated a mill race around the south side of what afterward became known as Davenport Island and erected a saw-mill and a grist-mill.

This suspicion seems to have arisen chiefly from his intimacy with Christopher Davenport, better known as Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen Henrietta ; but it may have been strengthened by his known connection with Laud, as well as by his ascetic habits.

The area now known as East Haven was obtained by Puritan settlers Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton on November 29, 1638, as part of the purchase of New Haven from Sachem Momauguin of the local Quinnipiack tribe.

In the 1920s Davenport and Bain discovered a new steel microstructure which they provisionally called martensite-troostite, due to it being intermediate between the already known low-temperature martensite phase and what was then known as troostite ( now fine-pearlite ).

Bain and Davenport also noted the existence of two distinct forms: ' upper-range ' bainite which formed at higher temperatures and ' lower-range ' bainite which formed near the martensite start temperature ( these forms are now known as upper-and lower-bainite respectively ).

Kirkwood Boulevard in Davenport is the route of the internationally known foot race, the Bix 7.

A Davenport desk, ( sometimes originally known as a Devonport desk ) is a small desk with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body.

Jack Arthur Davenport ( born 1 March 1973 ) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Goddard's peer, Davenport, even identified various forms of diseases now known to be caused by diet deficiencies as being hereditary.

His parents, David Fattah ( born Russell Davenport ) and Sister Falaka Fattah ( born Frances Brown, also known as Queen Mother Falaka Fattah ), are community activists in West Philadelphia, where they are building an " urban Boys ' Town " through their organization, the House of Umoja.

But it was the role of irascible newsreader Henry Davenport in the topical comedy Drop the Dead Donkey, written by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, for which Swift became best known.

Harold Davenport FRS ( 30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969 ) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory.

His 1988 group show of Ian Davenport, Gary Hume and Michael Landy was one of the first commercial gallery shows of artists that would later come to be known as Young British Artists.

For a while after Davenport College's inception into the Yale residential college system, students were known as " Hybrids ," a reference to the hybrid style of the college's architecture.

The road, formerly known as Davenport Road, in Glenwood, Durban has now been named after Helen Joseph under the recent Road Name Change Act which was initiated by the South African government in 2007 to rename streets which have names linked to pre-1994 colonialism.

Tewson is perhaps best known for her roles in British television sitcoms, such as Elizabeth in Keeping Up Appearances and Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine.

The town of Davenport got its name when a whaling captain named John Pope Davenport settled at El Jarro Point in 1867 and built a 400 foot wharf at the mouth of the Agua Puerca Creek, also known as the Muddy Water Creek.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.

Davenport has 27 parks and over of recreational paths for biking or walking.

The Davenport City Hall was built in 1895 for the meager price of $ 100, 000 ($ in dollars ).

The situation would soon change, as many citizens went to work for the Works Progress Administration and Davenport experienced a boom after World War II.

Davenport prefers the open access to the river for parks and vistas over having access cut off by dikes and levees.

Lindsay Park, in The Village of East Davenport, was used as parade grounds for Civil War soldiers from Camp McClellan.

** James Davenport, U. S. Representative for Connecticut ( d. 1797 )

He gigged around Chicago until the fall of 1923, at times returning to Davenport to work for his father.

Indeed, Beiderbecke had met Hardy and the clarinetist Leon Roppolo in Davenport in 1921 when the two joined a local band and played in town for three months.

According to the findings of Dr. Christian Davenport of the University of Notre Dame, Professor William Moore of Florida State University, and David Armstrong of Oxford University during their torture research, evidence suggests that non-governmental organizations have played the most determinant factor for stopping torture once it gets started.

During the summer, Davenport won the tournament in Los Angeles, defeating Graf for the first time in her career in the semifinals, before defeating Anke Huber in the final.

In the quarterfinals of that tournament, Davenport defeated Venus Williams for the fourth consecutive time.

Davenport bypassed the European clay-court season and went to the French Open without having played a professional competitive match for weeks.

Davenport led most of the way, as she served for the match at 6 – 5 in the second set, and had a match point at 5 – 4 in the third set.

After the loss at the US Open, Davenport captured the title in Bali without dropping a set, and subsequently qualified for the WTA Tour Championships.

In the final, Davenport defeated sixth seeded Patty Schnyder for her fourth title in Zürich and her sixth title of 2005, second only to Clijsters's nine.

World Team Tennis announced that Davenport would not be able to compete for the season because she was pregnant with her third child.

John Davenport arranged for these " Regicides " to hide in the West Rock hills northwest of the town.

This suggestion is usually shunned by residents of the other cities, for the simple reason that " Quad-Cities " doesn't sound as good ( as well as the fact that West Richland has a much smaller presence compared to the three major cities ) as well as the fact that there is already a Quad Cities on the Mississippi River with Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, Rock Island and Moline in Illinois.