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

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.

Davenport and neighbor Rockingham both campaigned to become the county seat.

Consequently, to ensure that the county seat issue would not be played out again, Davenport built the first county courthouse.

The county seat is at Davenport, which is also the county's largest city.

The Town of Davenport is in the northeast part of the county.

It is located roughly 30 miles west of Davenport, the county seat.

( The state is unspecified, but the county contains a tri-city conglomerate on the Mississippi between Chicago and New Orleans of Proof p. 52 ; compare the " Quad Cities " on the Mississippi, originally Davenport IA, Rock Island IL, Moline IL, and East Moline IL, but now also including Bettendorf IA.

When the Dukes are not targeted, it is generally a friend of the Dukes-auto mechanic Cooter Davenport, postmistress Miz Emma Tisdale, county worker Emery Potter, general store owner Mr. Rhuebottom, and others-who find themselves on the wrong side of Hogg's schemes.

The party won its first representation in 1976, when John Luck took a seat on Rother District Council in East Sussex, and party Campaign Secretary John Davenport won a parish council seat in Kempsey.

He was first elected to Parliament in the seat of Davenport on 10 March 1973, and joined the Liberal Movement faction of the party.

For the 1985 election, an electoral redistribution left both Brown and Stan Evans vying for Liberal preselection for the safe Liberal seat of Davenport.

He made this decision, partially because of the unexpected death of fellow Liberal MPP, Bruce Crozier, stating “ I have not groomed a successor ( in Davenport ) simply because Bruce ’ s death shocked me .” The Liberals lost his seat in the ensuing provincial election on October 6, 2011.

In other areas of North America, the word Davenport is used for a futon style sofa with storage under the seat area.

After the government had passed electoral reform legislation in 1968, Steele was moved to the LCL's safest new seat, Davenport, which covered the south-east of the City of Burnside.

In 1985 he lost his seat of Davenport to Stan Evans, a Liberal MP and factional enemy who stood as an independent after failing to win a preselection showdown that followed a tough redistribution.

* Davenport, Iowa, the largest city of that name in the U. S., and the third largest city in Iowa

Most were used by a variety of industrial users, but some railroads also bought Davenport locomotives, particularly of the 44-ton size, that being the largest locomotive then allowed by union rules to be operated by one man.

The largest of the campuses of George Brown College, Casa Loma campus is situated on the stretch of Kendal Ave. between Davenport Rd.

The largest above ground structure is the bus station, with its entrance on the east side of Spadina Road just north of Bloor Street, which currently serves as the terminus of the 127 Davenport bus route.

The two largest arches symbolize Rock Island and Davenport while the smaller ones represent the other surrounding Quad-Cities ( Bettendorf, Moline, and East Moline ).

Gluba, Rick Dickinson of Dubuque, and Bruce Braley had declared themselves candidates to be the representative for the Democratic leaning district that includes Dubuque, Davenport, and Waterloo as its largest cities.

East was the third largest high school in Iowa with 2, 115 students, following Lincoln and West in Davenport as of the 2005-2006 school year.

Natalie is more or less a pariah of the wealthy Davenport family, owners of Davenport Toothpaste, which is described in " Mr. Monk, Private Eye " as being the third largest toothpaste company in the world after Colgate and Crest.