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.

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.

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

* 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.

The farm crisis of the 1980s negatively affected Davenport and the rest of the Quad Cities, 35, 000 workers lost their jobs throughout the entire Quad Cities area.

Farmland surrounds Davenport, outside the Quad Cities area.

* 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

* Quad Cities of Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois.

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.

East Moline is one of the five Quad Cities, along with the cities of Rock Island, Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf.

Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.

Located on the Mississippi River, it is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Moline, East Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf.

Today the Quad Cities community consists of the larger cities of Davenport, Iowa ; Bettendorf, Iowa ; Moline, Illinois ; Rock Island, Illinois ; and East Moline, Illinois, as well as surrounding smaller cities Eldridge, Long Grove, Park View, Blue Grass, Buffalo, Walcott, Maysville, Mount Joy, Pleasant Valley, LeClaire, Panorama Park, and Riverdale in Iowa and Silvis, Milan, Hampton, Carbon Cliff, Port Byron, Andalusia, Coal Valley, and Colona in Illinois.

( 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.

The Quad City River Bandits and City of Davenport jointly produced a massive renovation to Modern Woodman Park in 2004.

In 2003, it purchased KQCT-TV in Davenport, which repeated the programming of Quad Cities PBS station WQPT-TV in the Iowa side of the Quad Cities.

* Quad Cities, a region which includes the Iowa cities of Bettendorf and Davenport and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island

SouthPark Mall is one of two regional malls in the Quad Cities area, the other being NorthPark Mall in Davenport, Iowa.

As Davenport is part of the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa the mall serves the population of these cities.

In 2010, sponsors of the award were the Diocese of Davenport, St. Ambrose University, Augustana College, Churches United of the Quad-Cities, Pax Christi, The Catholic Messenger, the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, the Sisters of St. Benedict, the Muslim Community of the Quad Cities, and the Sisters of St. Francis.

The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area ( Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa ; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois ).

The Davenport allocation for 103. 7 FM – representing the second FM station in the Quad Cities – dates to October 1948, when the station signed on as WOC-FM, a companion to its AM sister station, WOC ( 1420 AM ).