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Davenport, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Davenport a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Davenport Home page. The Davenport Home page provides as much information as possible on Davenport. Knowing Davenport’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Davenport’s Home page, you will also find Davenport’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Davenport has a population of 281895. 49.3% of Davenport’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.7 are female. 43.8% of Davenport is married and 63.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $134,940, and the average rent is $786. Household median income in Davenport is $53,140, and the individual median income is $30,731. Davenport’s Ethnic is the following: White(79.9%), Black(11%), Hispanic(8.9%), Multiple(5%), Asian(2.5%), Other(1.2%), Native(0.4%).
Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States. Located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state, it is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population of 384,324 and a combined statistical area population of 474,019, ranking as the 147th-largest MSA and 91st-largest CSA in the nation.
According to the 2020 census, the city had a population of 101,724, making it Iowa's third-largest city. Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836, by Antoine Le Claire and was named for his friend George Davenport, a former English sailor who served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, served as a supplier Fort Armstrong, worked as a fur trader with the American Fur Company, and was appointed a quartermaster with the rank of colonel during the Black Hawk War. The city is prone to frequent flooding due to its location on the Mississippi River.
There are two main universities: St. Ambrose University and Palmer College of Chiropractic, where the first chiropractic adjustment took place. Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, the Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival.
An internationally known 7-mile (11 km) foot race, called the Bix 7, is run during the festival. The city has a Class A minor-league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits. Davenport has 50 plus parks and facilities, as well as more than 20 miles (32 km) of recreational paths for biking or walking. Three interstates (80, 74 and 280) and two major United States Highways serve the city.
Davenport has seen steady population growth since its incorporation. National economic difficulties in the 1980s resulted in job and population losses. Notable people from the city have included jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell, former National Football League running back Roger Craig, UFC Welterweight Champion Pat Miletich, IBF Middleweight and WBA Super Middleweight boxing champion Michael Nunn, and former two-time WWE Champion and WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins.
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